
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: National Archives

Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: National Archives

Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: National Archives

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
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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

Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station

Image credit: Republic Aviation
Image source: AFMC

Image credit: Convair
Image source: NASA


Image credit: Republic Aviation
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Image credit: Convair
Image source: AFMC