GE Space Ferry

Another function of a future space station will be to service and inspect unmanned satellites. Here is an artist’s sketch showing an astronaut team, who travelled to their targets in a space ferry from an orbital station, working on various kinds of space probes.

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

Image credit: General Electric
Image source: Numbers Station

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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

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Artists’ concepts (Spacecraft) [1 of 6 folders]

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM

Shuttle Docking

Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974

Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station

RI Lunar Base

Image credit: Rockwell International
Image source: Mike Acs