Space Ops Center

Image credit: Boeing
Image source: SDASM Archives

Lifeboat Interior

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Winged Launch Vehicle

Image credit: GD/Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

General Dynamics FR-3A

Image credit: GD/Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

D4C 77860

Image credit; McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

MDAC Phase B

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Stellar Views

The Next Steps

The shuttlecraft docked with the station -in this case a top docking, but a nose docking is also possible. Two other shuttlecraft are seen, each of a slightly different configuration, since this scene looks forward to a time when shuttles, like aircraft today, will be specially designed according to their functions.

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

Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station