Image credit: NASA
Image source: National Archives
Left Side View
Category: Manufacturer
Venture Star
X-34
The Drawbridge
1962 Boeing LEM
Image credit: North American
Image source: Paul Carsola
Ryan Aeronautical Image
Image credit: Ryan Aeronautical
Image source: SDASM Archives
Boeing Winged Booster
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: AFMC
Rogallo Wing
Image credit: Ryan Aeronautical
Image source: SDASM Archives
LORL
Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: Numbers Station
Landing Sequence
Alden Metcalf
Dyna-Soar in space was never to be, for the program was canceled in December 1963. One of reasons was the development of a new type of aerospace plane, the lifting body.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
LEM by Gary Meyer
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
