Image credit: Lockheed
File source: NASA NTRS
LS 400-6
Category: Spaceplane
LS 400-6 2-Stage
Image credit: Lockheed
File source: NASA NTRS
LS 200-8
Image credit: Lockheed
File source: NASA NTRS
Early Space Shuttle Model
Credit/source: Bonhams Auction House
Space Plane Prototype Model
Credit/source: Bonhams Auction House
Glide To Landing
After completing its run to the manned orbiting lab, an Astroplane space ferry glides in for a regular landing.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Aerojet-General
Image source: Numbers Station
Astroplane 10
Still another possible space ferry of tomorrow is this huge Astroplane-10 liquid rocket system that can blast off from earth like a missile and later land like a regular airplane.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Aerojet-General
Image source: Numbers Station
330-CFD-DF-ST-85-11981
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives
Candidate Carrier
(Clipped Delta)
(Wing Tale)
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
File source: NASA NTRS
Two-Stage Concepts
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
File source: NASA NTRS
General Arrangement
Image credit: North American Rockwell
File source: NASA NTRS
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Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
File source: NASA NTRS
