Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
Image source: NASM
Tag: reusable spacecraft
GAC Artwork
Shuttle Docking
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station
Skylab Boost Mission
Image credit: NASA Marshall
Image source: NASA Images
Convair Migrator
An ad in a 1962 issue of Missiles & Rockets magazine describes this concept as a multi-purpose concept designated “Migrator.” Beginning in 1968, it could serve as a highly versatile, operational space station. “Migrator” will contain an onboard propulsion system, giving the vehicle the capability to migrate from one operational site to another, and will offer extended usefulness by serving as an interplanetary spacecraft.
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
TDRS-E
Image credit: NASA JSC
Image source: NASA Images
S87-47991
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, artwork depicts tracking and data relay satellite C (TDRS-C) deployment. OV-103 orbits above Earth in bottom-to-sun attitude, moments after TDRS-C’s release into space. TDRS-C is seen just below open payload bay (PLB). Artwork was done by Pat Rawlings of Eagle Engineering.
Image credit: NASA JSC
Image source: NASA Images
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6 October 1990
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.
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: AFMC
Recoverable Booster
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
