
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
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Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: KSSU The Blog, Mike Acs, NASA Johnson, Numbers Station

Third release week of November 15, 1971
THE 6:10 INTO SPACE. NASA is working on the design of a winged shuttle craft to resupply the manned space stations of the next decade. The giant space transports shown here can carry 50,000 pounds of men and cargo to the cluster of cylinders that make up a space base, the return to Earth and land like airplanes.
Credit: North American Rockwell
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station








Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers, North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM

I think this is Henry Lozano Jr. rendering of the NAR A, or at least I thought I did. Tony Landis describes it as a Boeing VTOHL proposal. Tony Landis is a writer and archivist at the AFMC History Office. Tony knows his stuff. I’m going to stick to my guns for now, do a little more digging and we’ll see if I wind up moving this post down the road.
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: AFMC

S69-18547 (1969) — North American Rockwell artist’s concept illustrating a part of the planned Apollo 9 extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the mission as the Command and Service Modules are docked to the Lunar Module. The figure performing the EVA represents astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, Apollo 9 lunar module pilot.
Image credit: NASA Johnson
Image source: NASA Images

Stunning representation of a NAR Phase A orbiter about to land by Henry Lozano Jr., from the collection of everyone’s favorite space archivist.
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs