Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Herbert Winthrop
Tag: Spaceplane
Payload Deployment
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
DC-3 (Various)
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Martian Explorer
A Boeing design study for a Mars exploration probe, 40 ft. in diameter and weighing 600 lb. Assembled and launched at a space-station, the unmanned probe would draw its power from the Sun. Propelled by an ion rocket, it would take three years to orbit Mars and return.
Eagle Book of Rockets and Space
Longacre Press, 1961
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MARS VEHICLE. Drawing, based on Boeing study, of space vehicle designed for launching from orbiting platform for reconnaissance flight to Mars and return. Lunar, orbital and interplanetary system studies, and expanding programs such as the advanced Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM, are typical of challenging assignments Boeing offers electronic-electrical engineers.
Missiles and Rockets
December 7, 1959
Image credit: Boeing Aircraft Company
Image source(s): Numbers Station, Internet Archive
Satellite Observatory
Gemini XI
Image credit: NASA
Image source: SDASM Archives
Assembly & Launch
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Artist’s Rendering
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
S70-26310
Just to illustrate just how utterly massive the R-134B would have been, take a look at this illustration from a report written by Jack Swigert for The Society of Experimental Test Pilots:
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
NAR Concept Art
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Astro by Ron Simpson
Do The Astro!
ASTRO — a manned reusable spacecraft concept developed by Douglas Aircraft.
PLAN AND ELEVATION views of ASTRO A2 vehicle. Note booster vehicle attachment at aft end.
Missiles and Rockets, September 3, 1962
Image credit: Douglas
Image source: Internet Archive
