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Expendable Second Stage Mission

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

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Program Objectives

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NAR 161

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Crew Exchange Mission

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Numbers Station

Ed Dempsey

Herbert Winthrop

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

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Payload Deployment

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Assembly & Launch

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

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Artist’s Rendering

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S70-26310

Just to illustrate just how utterly massive the R-134B would have been, take a look at this illustration from a report written by Jack Swigert for The Society of Experimental Test Pilots:

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

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Mike Acs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NAR Art Department

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

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