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Shuttle (1972)

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Numbers Station

Ken Hodges Shuttle Gallery

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Numbers Station

Phase C Development

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source(s):

Mike Acs

Numbers Station

NAR Space Division

I’m pretty certain these two images are by the same hand, but which one? They’re both heavily referenced and painted in what I would describe as North American Rockwell’s house style, but the palette and brushwork bring me back to a beautiful painting Don Bester did of the Saturn Shuttle. I could be wrong, but that’s the box I’m checking for now.

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Mike Acs

More Ted Brown? Yes please!

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Rockwell International

Image source: NASM

Shuttle Doing Shuttle Stuff

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Rockwell International

Image source: NASM

Cutaway Diagram

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Rockwell International

Image source(s):

 NASM

Mike Acs

Shuttle Docking

Our World in Space by Isaac Asimov & Robert McCall (1974)

Image credit: Robert McCall

Image source: Numbers Station

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Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Mike Acs

VTOHL

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.

NAR A at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: AFMC 

The First Space Resort

Astropolis at Atomic Rockets

Image credit: Playboy

Image source: Numbers Station