
Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA NTRS

Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA NTRS

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Drew Granston


I’m pretty sure the top piece is by North American master illustrator M. Alvarez because he/she signed it. I think the bottom is by the same hand. What are we looking at? It’s a space station, but you knew that. You now know as much as I do. Parked here only because it shares the same page in Flying the Space Shuttles as the 1982 concept by Ted Brown I shared earlier.
Flying the Space Shuttles
Don Dwiggins
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985
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Image source: Numbers Station








Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station

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

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
Image source: NASM

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: SDASM Commons





An ad in a 1962 issue of Missiles & Rockets magazine describes this concept as a multi-purpose concept designated “Migrator.” Beginning in 1968, it could serve as a highly versatile, operational space station. “Migrator” will contain an onboard propulsion system, giving the vehicle the capability to migrate from one operational site to another, and will offer extended usefulness by serving as an interplanetary spacecraft.
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives