This artist’s conception shows how the NASA M2 lifting body research vehiCLe will look to viewers from the B52 ‘mother” ship that will drop it for glide tests. The M2 is being fabricated by Northrop Corp’s Norair Division at Hawthorne, Calif. It’s a forerunner of “shuttle” vehicles expected to supply orbiting manned spacecraft.
The Plain Dealer Library
May 4 ’65 PD
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: Northrop
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969
Image credit: Douglas
Images: Numbers Station
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: General Dynamics
Image source: SDASM Archives
This undated cutaway drawing illustrates the Saturn IB launch vehicle with its two booster stages, the S-IB and S-IVB. Developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) as an interim vehicle in MSFC’s “building block” approach to the Saturn rocket development, the Saturn IB utilized Saturn I technology to further develop and refine the larger boosters and the Apollo spacecraft capabilities required for the marned lunar missions.
Image credit: NASA MSFC
Image source: NASA Images
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: SDASM Archives
