Space Operations Center at Astronautix
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Mike Acs
Tag: space station
McDonnell Douglas Space Station
MOL by Neil Jacobe
LORL (Lockheed)
RIFT
Space Station 1982
Lockheed Space Station
LORL
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
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
LORL at Astronautix
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: Numbers Station
LORL (Lockheed)
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
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
LORL at Astronautix
Image credit: Lockheed
Image source: Numbers Station
Space Delivery
Space delivery – The partnership of the space ferry and the manned laboratory is demonstrated in this sketch. Here astronauts in a Douglas Astro ferry approach a huge space station with fresh supplies of food and test equipment. Eventually, experimental orbiting stations may give way to orbiting terminals for space travelers of the future.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Numbers Station
Space-Age Station
A spaceport and supply rocket designed by the Martin Marietta Corporation in mid-air in this scene from the Hall of Science space show. In such a port, astronauts may orbit for half a year.
New York World’s Fair 1964/1965
Official Souvenir Book
Time Life, 1964
X-24 at Astronautix
Image credit: Martin Marietta
Image source: Numbers Station
