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Shuttle/Agena Study
Image credit: Lockheed
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Spacelab Being Loaded
LDEF Deployment
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Operations
LS-200
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: SDASM Archives
Olson Concept 1970
Image credit: Boeing
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Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: National Archives
Liebig Trading Card
Image credit: Liebig
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Four Space-Shuttle Concepts
Here are examples of tentative designs for a space shuttle, made public by members of the four industrial teams competing in the project:
- McDonnell Douglas/Marietta
- Boeing/Lockheed
- North American/General Dynamics
- Grumman Aerospace
Each of pictured space-shuttle versions is a composite craft consisting of two stages, a booster and an orbiter, and is launched vertically like a space rocket, as shown. It’s two stages separate in space, and both return to earth for re-use.
Image credit: Robert McCall
Text and Images: Popular Science
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Image credit: NASA KSC
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