Lockheed ATF

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Image source: National Archives

Rockwell International

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Advanced Tactical Aircraft

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Grumman Aerospace

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Northrop ATF

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S-78-23578

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STS Mission Profile

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Image source: Mike Acs

1962 Boeing LEM

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Image source: Paul Carsola

LORL

Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.

Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

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Image source: Numbers Station