Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
X-24 at Astronautix
Image credit: Martin Marietta
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Cover Art
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Martin Apollo
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L. Apollo is pictured here by an artist of The Martin Co., one of three leading Space Age manufacturers awarded study contracts on project by NASA. Apollo was a god of Ancient Greece, son of Clymene and Titan. This is nicely appropriate, since Martin produces the mighty Titan intercontinental ballistic missile.
R. The Apollo lunar spacecraft planned to carry 3 crewmen on round trip between earth and the moon is shown above here enroute among the stars. Protruding fan-shapes are solar arrays to gather energy from sun for use aboard. Apollo was said to have been the triumphant participant in Olympic games. Homer called him the “god of prophecy.”
America’s Mightiest Missile
by Larry Eisinger
Arco Publishing, 1961
Apollo Martin 410 at Astronautix
Image credit: NASA
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Martin Art Department
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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Frank DiPietro
Project X-33
X-33 at Astronautix
Image credit: NASA
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