McCauley's drawing is currently hanging near a Space Station observation window looking out at Earth, but will eventually be mailed back to him. "I'll get the actual piece of paper that was up in ...

Aurora art teacher wins international NASA contest with drawing that will now orbit Earth in ISS 02:56. Inside Mr. McCauley's art class at Aurora Frontier P-8, kids are encouraged to use their ...

A 1977 concept drawing for a space station. Known as the "spider" concept, this station was designed to use Space Shuttle hardware. A solar array was to be unwound from the exhausted main fuel tank.

"They wanted drawing ideas of what life would be like in space," Thad McCauley said. As part of NASA's International Art and Poetry Contest, McCauley's students got to work creating art that could ...