Oil on panel by Robert McCall. The Apollo 8 spacecraft fires it’s engines to propel it out of lunar orbit and the return trip to Earth.
This is NASA, EP 22, 1971
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Apollo 8 Coming Home
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Skylab (McCall)
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
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NAR Art Department
Shuttle Program at Astronautix
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ASTP Docking
X-30
NASP on Station
Download and Print
Four Space-Shuttle Concepts
Here are examples of tentative designs for a space shuttle, made public by members of the four industrial teams competing in the project:
- McDonnell Douglas/Marietta
- Boeing/Lockheed
- North American/General Dynamics
- Grumman Aerospace
Each of pictured space-shuttle versions is a composite craft consisting of two stages, a booster and an orbiter, and is launched vertically like a space rocket, as shown. It’s two stages separate in space, and both return to earth for re-use.
Image credit: Robert McCall
Text and Images: Popular Science
Atlas by Robert McCall
The Next Steps
Inside the cockpit of a shuttlecraft, with the pilot and co-pilot preparing for docking with a space station.
The shuttlecraft docked with the station -in this case a top docking, but a nose docking is also possible. Two other shuttlecraft are seen, each of a slightly different configuration, since this scene looks forward to a time when shuttles, like aircraft today, will be specially designed according to their functions.
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
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Astronaut Firing His Maneuvering Unit
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
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