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NASA Earth Orbital Space Station

McDAC A Alternate at Astronautix

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas

Image source: Numbers Station

76-HC-632

This is what an artist envisioned the Solar Power Satellite would look like. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna. The solar power satellite was to be located in a geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 miles above the Earth’s surface.

Image credit: NASA

Image source: NASA on The Commons

Atlas Space Station

Atlas Space Station at Atomic Rockets

Image credit: Convair

Image source: SDASM Archives

Orbital Workshop

Orbital Workshop at Astronautix

Image credit: NASA

Image source: Mike Acs

Migrator (Cutaway)

Image credit: Convair

Image source: SDASM Archives

Space Station

Space Station 1970 at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Drew Granston

CSM/OW

Orbital Workshop at Astronautix

Image credit: NASA

Image source: Mike Acs

Mysterious Alvarez

I’m pretty sure the top piece is by North American master illustrator M. Alvarez because he/she signed it. I think the bottom is by the same hand. What are we looking at? It’s a space station, but you knew that. You now know as much as I do. Parked here only because it shares the same page in Flying the Space Shuttles as the 1982 concept by Ted Brown I shared earlier.

Flying the Space Shuttles
Don Dwiggins
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985

Space Station 1982 at Astronautix

Image credit: NASA

Image source: Numbers Station

Henry Lozano Jr. Gallery

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Numbers Station