Image credit: North American
Image source: Paul Carsola
1962 Boeing LEM
Author: G
Ryan Aeronautical Image
Image credit: Ryan Aeronautical
Image source: SDASM Archives
Boeing Winged Booster
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: AFMC
Rogallo Wing
Image credit: Ryan Aeronautical
Image source: SDASM Archives
The Bug
Image credit: NASA GRC
Image source: NASA Images
LORL
Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: Numbers Station
Landing Sequence
Scale Model
Star Clipper 3-View
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: NASA History Division
Alden Metcalf
Dyna-Soar in space was never to be, for the program was canceled in December 1963. One of reasons was the development of a new type of aerospace plane, the lifting body.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
Titan III C
The huge Titan III C vehicle, towering over 150 feet into the air, moves into place on the launch pad. Missile is carried on same railroad car on which its parts were assembled.
Once the solid rockets have lifted Titan III C and it’s payload off the ground, their role is finished. As this sketch shows, when the solids burn out, they separate from the core section. Just before solid burnout, the first-stage liquid propellant engines are ignited to push the spacecraft farther towards space.
Course of the Titan III and it’s payload is monitored from a launch center such as this.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
TITAN
Artist’s concept of the Titan standard launch vehicle 34-D entering the space.
An artist’s concept of the new modular three-section fairing for the Air Force’s Titan III-C space launch vehicle.
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
