Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Drew Granston
MSFC-73-PD-4000-333
Category: Artist
Grumman
Image credit: Grumman
Image source: Cradle of Aviation Museum
Tomahawk Missile Illustration
Image credit: General Dynamics
Image source: SDASM Archives
National Archives Collection
Boeing SOC
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1983-C-02123
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1983-C-02122
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1983-C-02126
Image credit: General Dynamics
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1983-C-02125
B-0992
A hypersonic shockwave system envelopes an Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicle (AOTV) as it grazes the atmosphere before returning to the Space Shuttle in low Earth orbit. In this drawing, the main engine and the balloon-like parachute, or ballute, which encases the AOTV, provide protection from the reentry heat and drag to slow the vehicle as it enters a lower orbit. After reaching low Earth orbit, the ballute would be deflated and the AOTV would rendezvous with the Shuttle for reuse. This aerobraking technique is one of several being studied by Boeing Aerospace Company under contract to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
BOEING AEROSPACE COMPANY
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives
255-GRC-1983-C-03832
An Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicle is shown using the Earth’s atmosphere to slow itself down and lift itself into another orbit before returning to the Space Shuttle for reuse. Inflatable wings are located on each side of the core propulsion module and covered by a high temperature heat shield material. The spacecraft payload bay is located in the forward section of the nose cone. Boeing is studying how the atmosphere can be used as a brake for this proposed Air Force spacecraft under contract to the Air Force’s Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
BOEING AEROSPACE COMPANY
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives
Lester Pettus
Image credit: NASA GRC
Image source: National Archives
S95-01072
S95-01072 (January 1995) — This artwork is part of a series of depiction’s of proposed projects involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Lunar Discovery Orbiter (LDO) is depicted skimming just 20 kilometers over the lunar surface as it approaches Amundsen, a large terraced crater near the Moon’s south pole. Shadows in the crater and in nearby areas may conceal deposits of ice permanently shadowed from the Sun’s rays but quantifiable with LDO’s instruments. LDO is expected to accomplish the first high-resolution global survey of the Moon. Developed by the University of Arizona, the Boeing Defense and Space Group and NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, Texas, this mission addresses the fundamental questions in lunar and planetary science and prepares for future exploration and use of the Moon. This artwork is a painting done by Pat Rawlings, of SAIC, for NASA.
Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA Johnson
