Orbital Vehicle

Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives

6:10 INTO SPACE

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

Mercury

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Mercury by George Akimoto

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station