Tag: Saturn

Single-Stage-to-Orbit

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  1. Optional fairing around the two-man Gemini Capsule;
  2. Gemini adapter section;
  3. Transition support structure;
  4. Orbit injection / retro and control propellant tanks (6);
  5. Toroidal liquid-oxygen tank;
  6. Annular combustion chamber;
  7. Truncated plug nozzle and re-entry heat shield;
  8. Attitude-control system (4);
  9. Retractable landing legs (4);
  10. Spherical liquid-hydrogen propellant tank.

Frontiers of Space
Philip Bono & Kenneth Gatland
Macmillan, 1969

Image credit: Douglas
Images: Numbers Station

NAR News Photo

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Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs

108-KSC-68PC-18

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Image credit: Douglas Aircraft Company
Image source: Jenna Sharp

108-KSC-68PC-16

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Image credit: Douglas Aircraft Company
Image source: Jenna Sharp

108-KSC-67PC-15

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Image credit: Douglas Aircraft Company
Image source: Jenna Sharp

Missile & Space Systems Division

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Image credit: Douglas Aircraft Company
Image source: Mike Acs

Orbital Workshop

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Image credit: Douglas Aircraft Company
Image source: Mike Acs

Douglas Aircraft Co. PR Photo

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Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Mike Acs

Operations in 1978

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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
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Moonshot

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Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
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Saturn: The Ringed Beauty

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Saturn seen from its satellite Midas

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Saturn with its rings seen edge on

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Spaceship explores the rings of Saturn

Conquering the Sun’s Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford

Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange

E.P Dutton & Co., 1963

Image source: Numbers Station