Launch System – Page 4

B-18E

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

Orbital Lifeboat

Miscellaneous Graphics [2 of 2 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

Shuttle by Donald Bester

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

This undated cutaway drawing illustrates the Saturn IB launch vehicle with its two booster stages, the S-IB and S-IVB. Developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) as an interim vehicle in MSFC’s “building block” approach to the Saturn rocket development, the Saturn IB utilized Saturn I technology to further develop and refine the larger boosters and the Apollo spacecraft capabilities required for the marned lunar missions.

Image credit: NASA MSFC
Image source: NASA Images

Not Unattractive

Image credit: SpaceX
Image source: NASA KSC

Phil Santos

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives

Propellant Transfer

Conceptual view of the operations in the equatorial earth orbit. The operation in orbit is principally one of propellant transfer and it not an assembly job. The vehicle being fueled is the third stage of a SATURN II with a lunar landing and return vehicle attached. The third stage of the SATURN II was used in the combination into orbit and has thus expended its propellants. This stage is fueled into orbit by a detachment of approximately ten men after which the vehicle then proceeds on the moon.

Image credit: United States Army
Image source: NASM