Convair Negative Image

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

1968

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

Image credit: Lockheed Martin
Image source: The Portal to Texas History

LS-200-5

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

Image credit: Lockheed Martin
Image source: The Portal to Texas History

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.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station