Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
NAR SPS
Tag: Space Station
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Delta Station
Image credit: NASA
Image source: NASA on The Commons
NAR 161
Image credit: NASA
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Crew Exchange Mission
NAR Artist Concept
Image credit: North American Rockwell
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A 1970 Space Station
Image credit: National Geographic
NASA-S-72-1139-X
Image credit: NAR / NASA MSFC
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Modularized Space Station
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USAF’s MOL
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
S66-17592
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Internet Archive
Gemini B / MOL
A 1960 concept image of the United States Air Force’s proposed Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was intended to test the military usefulness of having humans in orbit. The station’s baseline configuration was that of a two-person Gemini B spacecraft that could be attached to a laboratory vehicle. The structure was planned to launch onboard a Titan IIIC rocket. The station would be used for a month and then the astronauts could return to the Gemini capsule for transport back to Earth. The first launch of the MOL was scheduled for December 15, 1969, but was then pushed back to the fall of 1971. The program was cancelled by Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird in 1969 after the estimated cost of the program had risen in excess of $3 billion, and had already spent $1.3 billion. Some of the military astronauts selected for the program then transferred to NASA and became some of the first people to fly the Space Shuttle, including Richard Truly, who later became the NASA Administrator.
Image # : 2B24070-Fig3
Date: Circa 1960
Image credit: McDonnell
Image source: NASA on The Commons
