The space shuttle is launched from Cape Kennedy in this artist’s concept by Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. Firing at the same time as the two solid-propellant boosters are the liquid-fueled engines of the orbiter, right. The two solid boosters will be jettisoned next, and the orbiter will continue into orbit.
Space World
November 1972, VOL. I-11-107
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Artist’s concept of the pre-Shuttle Lockheed-sponsored Star Clipper stage-and-one-half lifting body configuration ascending from a desert launching base – circa 1968.
Lockheed Horizons, Number 13, 1983
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Final evolution of the Lockheed LS-200-5 lifting body stage-and-one-half configuration under NASA Space Shuttle Alternate Concepts contracts in December 1970.
Lockheed Horizons, Number 13, 1983
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Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
Image credit: Robert McCall
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