Booster & HCR Orbiter

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Convair/General Dynamics

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Convair Negative Image

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Operations in 1978

NOV 1 1972 

THIS SPACE SHUTTLE IS SCHEDULED TO START OPERATIONS IN 1978

Vehicle will make round trips ferrying men into orbit and the returning them to earth.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

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

Shuttle (1972)

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station