Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Lockheed
Image source: NASM

Permanent Space Station

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

S73-31922

S73-31922 (1973) — An artist’s concept illustrating a cutaway view of the general arrangement of the Skylab Rescue Command Module (CM). The standard Skylab CM accommodates a crew of three with storage lockers on the aft bulkhead for resupply of experiment film and other equipment as well as the return of exposed film, data tapes and experiment samples. To convert the standard CM to a rescue vehicle, the storage lockers are removed and replaced with two crew couches in order to seat five crewmen. The rescue CM would then be launched with a crew of two.

Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA Johnson

Phase C Final Proposals

Image credits: North American, Rockwell McDonnell Douglas
Images: Neal Spence, SDASM Archives

If It’s Not Boeing, I’m Not Going

Image credit: NASA Lewis
Image source: National Archives

Cutaway Diagram

Image credit: Rockwell International
Image source(s): NASM, Mike Acs

Lockheed’s Man-In-Space Program

Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Mike Acs

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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