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.
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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
Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Lockheed
Image source: NASM
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Mike Acs
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Internet Archive
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
Image credit: NASA Lewis
Image source: National Archives
