Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Payload Deployment
Tag: concept art
DC-3 (Various)
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Early LEM
Collecting Lunar Samples
From Drew Granston‘s collection: a beautiful early rendering of Grumman’s LM by Craig Kavafes.
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Drew Granston
Vehicle Comparison
Image credit: General Dynamics / Astronautics
Image source: SDASM Archives
Martian Explorer
A Boeing design study for a Mars exploration probe, 40 ft. in diameter and weighing 600 lb. Assembled and launched at a space-station, the unmanned probe would draw its power from the Sun. Propelled by an ion rocket, it would take three years to orbit Mars and return.
Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
Longacre Press, 1961
Right:
MARS VEHICLE. Drawing, based on Boeing study, of space vehicle designed for launching from orbiting platform for reconnaissance flight to Mars and return. Lunar, orbital and interplanetary system studies, and expanding programs such as the advanced Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM, are typical of challenging assignments Boeing offers electronic-electrical engineers.
Missiles and Rockets
December 7, 1959
Image credit: Boeing Aircraft Company
Image source(s): Numbers Station, Internet Archive
Satellite Observatory
Gemini XI
Image credit: NASA
Image source: SDASM Archives
17 July 1975
Image credit: NASA
Image source: SDASM Archives
Mars Returner
162684AC
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: Mike Acs
S-69-60223
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs
