1968

Artist’s concept of the pre-Shuttle Lockheed-sponsored Star Clipper stage-and-one-half lifting body configuration ascending from a desert launching base – circa 1968.

Lockheed Horizons, Number 13, 1983

Image credit: Lockheed Martin
Image source: The Portal to Texas History

LS-200-5

Final evolution of the Lockheed LS-200-5 lifting body stage-and-one-half configuration under NASA Space Shuttle Alternate Concepts contracts in December 1970.

Lockheed Horizons, Number 13, 1983

Image credit: Lockheed Martin
Image source: The Portal to Texas History

Artist Concept

Image credit: Republic Aviation
Image source: AFMC 

Republic Aerospaceplane

Image credit: Republic Aviation
Image source: AFMC