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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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Inside The Cockpit
Inside the cockpit of a shuttlecraft, with the pilot and co-pilot preparing for docking with a space station.
Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974
Image credit: Robert McCall
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Power Tower – 1984
This is an artist’s conception of the proposed “Power Tower” space station configuration, shown with the Japanese Experiment Module attached. This model and several others were examined before deciding on the Space Station Freedom structure that was later abandoned in favor of the International Space Station.
Image credit: NASA
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MSFC-77-SPS-4512
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs
6:10 INTO SPACE
Third release week of November 15, 1971
THE 6:10 INTO SPACE. NASA is working on the design of a winged shuttle craft to resupply the manned space stations of the next decade. The giant space transports shown here can carry 50,000 pounds of men and cargo to the cluster of cylinders that make up a space base, the return to Earth and land like airplanes.
Credit: North American Rockwell
Image credit: North American Rockwell
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R. J. Dubois
76-HC-632
This is what an artist envisioned the Solar Power Satellite would look like. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna. The solar power satellite was to be located in a geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 miles above the Earth’s surface.
Image credit: NASA
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Atlas Space Station
Image credit: Convair
Image source: SDASM Archives
