This abstract statue is made of gold-colored polished stainless steel. Standing at 100 feet tall, the piece consists of a "...three-planed narrow shaft ending in a pointed tip, penetrates a triple star-like cluster near its apex".[4][5]
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Lippold believed that "the characteristic art of our time deals with the conquest of space", with Ad Astra symbolizing just that.[6][7] In 2009 the sculpture made an appearance in the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.[8]
^National Air & Space Museum (1976). "Ad Astra (sculpture)". Inventory of American Painting and Sculpture. Smithsonian. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^"Lippard, Richard", The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists, Ann Lee Morgan
^Neufeld, Michael; Alex Spencer; John Dailey; John Glenn (October 2010). Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography. National Geographic. ISBN1-4262-0653-4.
^"Ad Astra". Newspapers.com. No. 20 June 1976. Star-Gazette. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"Fabricating a soaring symbol of the space age {Richard Lippold's Ad astra}." AIA Journal 65, (October 1976): Art Index Retrospective: 1929–1984 (H. W. Wilson Company)