McDAC A Alternate at Astronautix
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
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NASA Earth Orbital Space Station
Category: Drawbridge Orbiter
Phase A Orbiter by Ron Simpson
MDC A by Robert McCall
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
McDAC A Alternate at Astronautix
Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Mike Acs
McDAC A Alternate
McDAC A Alternate at Astronautix
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
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McDonnell Douglas Space Station
Space Station 1970 at Astronautix
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
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The Drawbridge
Orbiter & Station
Drawbridge Orbiter
Four Space-Shuttle Concepts
Here are examples of tentative designs for a space shuttle, made public by members of the four industrial teams competing in the project:
- McDonnell Douglas/Marietta
- Boeing/Lockheed
- North American/General Dynamics
- Grumman Aerospace
Each of pictured space-shuttle versions is a composite craft consisting of two stages, a booster and an orbiter, and is launched vertically like a space rocket, as shown. It’s two stages separate in space, and both return to earth for re-use.
Image credit: Robert McCall
Text and Images: Popular Science
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