Image credit: NASA
Image source: SDASM Archives
HL-10 Logistics Vehicle
Category: Northrop
HL-10 by Fred Wolff
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Numbers Station
Lifting Body Research Vehicles
HL-10 Lifting Body
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Mike Acs
Northrop ATF
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: National Archives
Northrop Lander
First manned landing on Mars! This Northrop sketch shows how a soft landing on the red planet might look from ground level. A steerable gliding cloverleaf parachute slows the craft down as the retrorockets start to fire. The parachute is then jettisoned, and the retrorockets perform the final maneuver for touchdown. Retrorocket braking was perfected in the 1960’s to provide the soft landings for the Surveyor moon probe.
Project Viking: Space Conquest Beyond the Moon
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
Leynnwood Gallery
Jack Leynnwood
Created for Nortronics (Northrop), this Jack Leynnwood painting of a rocket circling the moon graced the cover of Missiles and Rockets in February, 1959.
Missiles and Rockets, Feb 9, 1959
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Internet Archive
Lifting Body
Image credit: NASA Art Program
Image source: Numbers Station
Northrop N-205 Space Trainer
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Tony Chong
