255-GRC-1982-C-03917

Image credit: NASA GRC
Image source: National Archives

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

Ken Hodges Shuttle Gallery

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Image source: Numbers Station

Phase C Development

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Images: 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.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs

Space Station

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Image source: Drew Granston

B-18E

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station