NAR News Photo

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Images: NASA, Mike Acs

Ground Operations

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Images: Numbers Station

Lift Off

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Images: Numbers Station

NAR Artist Concept

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM

Expendable Second Stage

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Image source: Numbers Station

Shuttle Concept

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Image source: Numbers Station

NAR 134

Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974

Image credit: Robert McCall

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station

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.

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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