
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: NM Space Museum

Image credit: Boeing
Image source: NM Space Museum

This artist’s conception shows how the NASA M2 lifting body research vehiCLe will look to viewers from the B52 ‘mother” ship that will drop it for glide tests. The M2 is being fabricated by Northrop Corp’s Norair Division at Hawthorne, Calif. It’s a forerunner of “shuttle” vehicles expected to supply orbiting manned spacecraft.
The Plain Dealer Library
May 4 ’65 PD
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Numbers Station

Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Numbers Station

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs

Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archive

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archive

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archive

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Lockheed
Image source: NASM

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs