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NAR Concept Art

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Numbers Station

MSC/NAR DC-3

Shuttle DC-3 at Astronautix

Image credit: North American Rockwell

Image source: Numbers Station

For spacemen. And earth families.

This silent morning, on Space Shuttle #28, breakfast will probably begin with Tang.

Imagine a spaceship that carries 12 passengers and lands as easily as an airplane. It will be ferrying back and forth to space by the late 1970’s.
And if the future is like the present, Tang will be there in its galley. Just as it’s on your kitchen table.
Nutritious, orange-flavored Tang. The instant breakfast drink with more Vitamin C than orange juice.
No matter where you are.

Tang. For spacemen. And earth families.

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: Convair

Image source: Numbers Station

MDAC Phase B

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas

Image source: Stellar Views

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

Image source: Numbers Station

NAR 130 & Booster

Shuttle Program at Astronautix

Image credit: Convair

Image source: SDASM Archives