Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Wikipedia
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Paul Rossi
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Lockheed Mystery Ship
Recoverable Rocket Boosters by Tony R. Landis, AFMC History Office
Irwin Stambler gives some information on this Lockheed ten-passenger cargo carrier in Orbiting Stations. As described, the vehicle would launch initially from a hot-water-propulsion rocket sled. Two nested fly-back boosters take the payload stage to orbit. I put the image scanned from the book on Flickr, it’s a hair wider than AFMC’s version and shows the artist’s signature. So, not so much a mystery as it is a spacecraft without a name. More here on Aerospace Projects Review, and more again here on Secret Projects.
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: AFMC
Lunar Rocket (Leynnwood)
Found by Mike Acs on WorthPoint. Perhaps Worthpoint is not so worthless after all. If you’re the cat who scooped this on eBay, drop me a line.
Image credit: Northrop
Testing The Men
More about Man’s Survival in Space.
Collier’s, March 7, 1953
Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia
Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston
Star Raker (HI-RES)
Recoverable Rocket Boosters by Tony R. Landis, AFMC History Office
Image credit: Rockwell International
Image source: AFMC
Cover Art
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
X-24 at Astronautix
Image credit: Martin Marietta
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Leynnwood Gallery
Assembling Spaceball
Huge space ferries are used by astronauts to perform the final assembly of the huge Spaceball orbiting station.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
Rendezvous with The MOL
Carefully watching the displays on their instrument panel, two astronauts in their Gemini ferry prepare to rendezvous with the MOL.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: USAF
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Lunar Module Derivatives
Origin of The SST
- Lockheed’s L-2000 SST design, loser in the competition with Boeing for US/SST contract, was result of decade of tunnel testing, incorporating best features of fixed wing double-delta concept proved out in SR-71. Lockheed’s philosophy was simplicity in design for better safety and economy.
- How to build an SST! Brilliant Lockheed designer Clarence L. (Kelly) Johnson, who created such successful planes as the U-2, SR-71, F-104 and the Constellation, amused fellow aircrafters with satirical drawing portraying design problems encountered with the SST.
The SST: Here it comes, ready or not.
by Don Dwiggins
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968
Image credit: Lockheed
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