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A view of a model of the first stage of a two-stage horizontal takeoff and landing vehicle designed to place shuttle class payloads in low earth orbit. The model will be used in launcher studies by the Aeromechanics Division of the Flight Dynamics Laboratory.

Image credit: NASA
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Ground Operations

Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Lift Off

Image credit: North American Rockwell
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Permanent Space Station

Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
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Image credit: Boeing
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Spaceball

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

Image credit: Douglas
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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
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