Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Shuttle Development
Tag: Spaceplane
NAR Station & Shuttle
NAR 1970
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: Numbers Station
Space Shuttle Illustration
Previously shared here, the same Alvarez artwork without the overpaint:
Image credit: NASA
Images: NASA GRC, Numbers Station
X-30
Image credit: NASA
NASP on Station
Mars Operational Phase
It’s January 1972.
Having safely glided to a stop on a Martian plateau, this illustration depicts the Operational Phase of the mission. The crew have already inflated their six meter habitat (it’s a tent), assembled the flat-pack steamroller and are shown removing the nuclear reactor so it can be dragged at least a kilometer from base camp so it won’t kill them.
With the reactor at a safe distance, the crew of eight have 479 days to explore the surface of Mars and maybe do a spot of gardening.
You can read more about this fascinating 1960 Boeing Study here.
Image credit: Boeing / Chicago Daily News
Image source: Numbers Station
X-20 Dyna-Soar
Image credit: United States Air Force
Image source: Wikipedia
Boeing Art Department
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
NAR Orbiter
Image credit: North American Rockwell
Image source: SDASM Archives
Orbiter & Station
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
MDAC Orbiter
Image credit: McDonnell Douglas
Image source: Mike Acs
