
Image credit: NASA
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Image credit: NASA
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Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Lockheed
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Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Mike Acs

Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Image credit: NASA Marshall
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Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
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Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / North American Rockwell
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Another function of a future space station will be to service and inspect unmanned satellites. Here is an artist’s sketch showing an astronaut team, who travelled to their targets in a space ferry from an orbital station, working on various kinds of space probes.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
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Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Douglas
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Space shuttles at work. In the background, a space station cluster extends its manipulating arms to assist a shuttlecraft in docking.
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
Image credit: Robert McCall
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