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
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
Image Credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
Image credit: AEC
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
