PEP

NASA Spinoff – 1982

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Internet Archive

Construction In Space

NASA Spinoff – 1982

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Internet Archive

Can We Get to MARS?

  1. Cutaway of plane in the foreground shows personnel, tractors in ship.
  2. Advance party, after landing on Martian snow in ski-equipped plane, prepares for trip to equator. Men live in inflatable, pressurized spheres mounted on tractors, enter and leave through air locks in the central column. Sphere on tractor is just being blown up. Cutaway of tractor, foreground, shows closed-circuit engine, run by hydrogen peroxide, oil. Trailer cutaway shows fuel supply, cargo.

Is there Life on Mars?
Collier’s, April 30, 1954

Image credit: Collier’s
Image source: AIAA Houston

Short Final

Stunning representation of a NAR Phase A orbiter about to land by Henry Lozano Jr., from the collection of everyone’s favorite space archivist.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs

S-76-24322

Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Archives

Sol Dember

Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station

Pioneer G

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Image source: Numbers Station