Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)

Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Lockheed
Image source: NASM

NAR News Photo

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: NASA, Mike Acs

Ground Operations

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: Numbers Station

Lift Off

Image credit: North American Rockwell
Images: Numbers Station

Permanent Space Station

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

NAR Artist Concept

Planetary Illustrations (artists’ concepts)

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

GE Space Ferry

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

Image credit: General Electric
Image source: Numbers Station

Spaceball

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

Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station

Shuttles At Work

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
Image source: Numbers Station