Image credit: NASA
Image source: Drew Granston
NAR-C584B
Author: G
Discovery at Vandenberg AFB
Image credit: United States Air Force
Image source: National Archives
The Columbia Prepares to Descend
Image credit: NASA
Image source: National Archives
Welcome Home, Columbia
Image credit: NASA
Image source: National Archives
The Bell X-1, “Glamorous Glennis”
Image credit: U.S. Air Force Art Collection
Image source: National Archives
Yeager Goes Mach 2
Image credit: U.S. Air Force Art Collection
Image source: National Archives
Mars Convoy
Image credit: General Dynamics / Astronautics
Image source: SDASM Archives
EMPIRE Hunting: Part 4
In Orbit
Above: In the flyby scenario, Mars is studied by teleoperated probes. Below Artwork from Ehricke’s time at Convair showing the EMPIRE convoy in orbit. The MEV descends to the surface, landers based on NASA’s Surveyor are dispatched to Deimos and Phobos, a balloon deploys in the Martian atmosphere while a satellite begins to survey the planet.
Transportation [1]
Planets and Planetary Missions
Above: Surface operations. These images are from the SDASM Archive. Below: From the KAE papers, the MEV returns to orbit.
Departure
Above: With everything and everyone safely stowed, the fleet get a “Go!” from Mission Control. Below: Free of Mars’ gravitational pull – and on course for Earth – the third stage is discarded.
Arriving Home
Back in Earth orbit, the crew would transfer to the EEM for re-entry. I think these are from Ehricke’s time at Convair and the paintings by John Sentovic.
Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM
B-18E
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Orbital Lifeboat
Shuttle by Donald Bester
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Mysterious Alvarez
I’m pretty sure the top piece is by North American master illustrator M. Alvarez because he/she signed it. I think the bottom is by the same hand. What are we looking at? It’s a space station, but you knew that. You now know as much as I do. Parked here only because it shares the same page in Flying the Space Shuttles as the 1982 concept by Ted Brown I shared earlier.
Flying the Space Shuttles
Don Dwiggins
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
