Recoverable Rocket Boosters by Tony R. Landis, AFMC History Office
Image credit: USAF
Image source: AFMC
Supersonic Launch Vehicle
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Recoverable Rocket Boosters by Tony R. Landis, AFMC History Office
Image credit: USAF
Image source: AFMC
Space Delivery
Space delivery – The partnership of the space ferry and the manned laboratory is demonstrated in this sketch. Here astronauts in a Douglas Astro ferry approach a huge space station with fresh supplies of food and test equipment. Eventually, experimental orbiting stations may give way to orbiting terminals for space travelers of the future.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
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Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
X-24 at Astronautix
Image credit: Martin Marietta
Image source: Numbers Station
Assembling Spaceball
Huge space ferries are used by astronauts to perform the final assembly of the huge Spaceball orbiting station.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
Northrop SLOMAR
Ready Or Not!
A Lockheed artist’s impression of a novel method of taking a unique and untried method of orbital delivery and making it even more unique and more untried. As my wife said to me in the giftshop of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, “Baby, I’ll take the car and see you up there!”
X-24C at Astronautix
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: AFMC
Short Final
Stunning representation of a NAR Phase A orbiter about to land by Henry Lozano Jr., from the collection of everyone’s favourite space archivist.
NAR A at Astronautix
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source:Â Mike Acs
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SPACE II
This is a Martin Co. engineering design of a shuttle vehicle to carry five men, or an equivalent amount of equipment, to a rendezvous in orbit with a space station. After delivering it’s load, this vehicle returns to earth by following a glide pattern and slowing in the earth’s atmosphere until landing speed can be attained.
SLOMAR at Secret Projects Forum
Image credit: Martin
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