Most tattoo appointments take place in studios, convention halls, or private workspaces. On June 5, however, tattoo artist and Monolith Studio founder found himself working in a setting few artists will ever experience: the Starship Gallery at Space Center Houston, surrounded by spacecraft, flight hardware, and exhibits documenting decades of human space exploration.
The occasion was directly connected to one of NASA's most significant recent achievements. Just two months earlier, the Artemis II crew completed humanity's first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since the Apollo era. Launched aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft on April 1, 2026, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen spent nearly ten days on a mission that carried them around the Moon before returning safely to Earth on April 10.
