Integrated Program Plan – Page 3

MT70-6335 6-25-70

Shown here is an artist’s concept of a manned Space Tug servicing a communications satellite. Servicing of satellites will be economical and desirable in many cases in the future. However, the satellites will have to be designed to permit servicing. Existing satellite systems which are designed without consideration of inspace maintenance probably could not be effectively serviced even by a highly sophisticated maintenance kit used in conjunction with a manned Tug.

Image credit: NASA
File source: NASA NTRS

Operations in 1978

NOV 1 1972

THIS SPACE SHUTTLE IS SCHEDULED TO START OPERATIONS IN 1978

Vehicle will make round trips ferrying men into orbit and the returning them to earth.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

MSFC-71-PD-4000-142

Image credit: NASA MSFC
Image source: NASA Marshall

Planetary Probe Launching

Image credit: NASA Marshall
Image source: SDASM Archives

If It’s Not Boeing, I’m Not Going

Image credit: NASA Lewis
Image source: National Archives

NAR Space Division

I’m pretty certain these two images are by the same hand, but which one? They’re both heavily referenced and painted in what I would describe as North American Rockwell’s house style, but the palette and brushwork bring me back to a beautiful painting Don Bester did of the Saturn Shuttle. I could be wrong, but that’s the box I’m checking for now.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs