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Tag: concept art
Exploratory Vehicle
A Boeing design for a manned orbital or interplanetary reconnaissance vehicle. The vehicle would be built in orbit around the earth around the Earth, inside a plastic bubble having controlled atmosphere and pressure, permitting technicians to work without space suits. Propelled by a nuclear-powered plasma jet, it could travel to planets within our solar-system , carrying shuttle vehicles to make the actual observations of planet surfaces. Nylon nets, rather than flooring, would divide the vehicle into seven levels.
Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
by John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Longacre Press, 1961
Image credit: Boeing Aircraft Company
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X-20 by George Mathis
330-PSA-279-62 (USAF 167026): Artwork by George Mathis of how the Air Force Titan III Standard Launch Vehicle may look boosting the United States Air Force X-20 (Dyna-Soar) into orbit, August 1962.
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: National Museum of U.S. Navy
Assembly & Launch
Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Outpost III
Image credit: Convair
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ASTP
DECEMBER 1974
MOSCOW, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
SOYUZ 16 CONCEPT —- An artist’s concept depicting the Soviet Soyuz 16 spacecraft in Earth orbit. The six-day Soyuz 16 Earth-orbital mission flown December 2-8, 1974, was a Soviet rehearsal for the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The crew of Soyuz 16 was Cosmonauts Anatolly V. Filipophenko, commander; and Hikolay H. Rukavishnikov, engineer. These two me are the Soviet ASTP second (back-up) crew, also. The three major components of the Soyuz spacecraft are the sphere-shaped orbital module, the decent vehicle (in center), and the instrument assembly module. Two solar panels extend out from the IA module. A docking mechanism to test the Soviet ASTP androgenous docking system (seen attached to the orbital module) was flown on the Soyuz 16 flight. This picture was made from a frame of 35mm motion picture film.
PHOTO COURTESY: USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Image credit: NASA
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Artist’s Rendering
Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Apollo 8 Coming Home
Oil on panel by Robert McCall. The Apollo 8 spacecraft fires it’s engines to propel it out of lunar orbit and the return trip to Earth.
This is NASA, EP 22, 1971
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
S70-26310
Just to illustrate just how utterly massive the R-134B would have been, take a look at this illustration from a report written by Jack Swigert for The Society of Experimental Test Pilots:
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
Early Lander Concept
We Land On The Moon
NASA artwork as it appeared in We Land On The Moon by John Raymond in 1963.
see also:
Beautiful scan of an original NASA issued lithograph.
and also:
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs, Drew Granston, Numbers Station
Apollo 17 Experiments
Image credit: NASA
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