Expendable Second Stage Mission

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Delta Wing X-15

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Mars Colony of The Future

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Mars Spacecraft Approaching Surface

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RI Lunar Base

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Space Shuttle

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Ghost View

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Shuttle Gallery

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From Mike Acs

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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

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