Tag: space habitat

LORL

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Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.

Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: Numbers Station

LORL (Lockheed)

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Three-armed LORL is shown in this artist’s sketch. Center hub, which contains parking area for several space ferries, does not rotate and thus remains weightless. Under the parking area is a laboratory for study of weightlessness. The three arms rotate around the hub to create artificial gravity. Cutaway of one arm shows it to contain a series of rooms for other laboratory requirements and studies.

Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965

Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Numbers Station

Leynnwood Gallery

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Image credit: Northrop
Images: Numbers Station

Short Final

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Stunning representation of a NAR Phase A orbiter about to land by Henry Lozano Jr., from the collection of everyone’s favorite space archivist.

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Mike Acs

NASA-S-72-1139-X

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Image credit: NAR / NASA MSFC
Image source: Numbers Station

Modularized Space Station

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Image credit: NAR / NASA MSFC
Image source: Numbers Station