Image credit: NASA
Image source: National Archives
Advanced Technology Demonstrator
Tag: USAF
Left Side View
Image credit: NASA
Image source: National Archives
Boeing Winged Booster
Image credit: North American Aviation
Image source: AFMC
Alden Metcalf
Dyna-Soar in space was never to be, for the program was canceled in December 1963. One of reasons was the development of a new type of aerospace plane, the lifting body.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
Titan III C
The huge Titan III C vehicle, towering over 150 feet into the air, moves into place on the launch pad. Missile is carried on same railroad car on which its parts were assembled.
Once the solid rockets have lifted Titan III C and it’s payload off the ground, their role is finished. As this sketch shows, when the solids burn out, they separate from the core section. Just before solid burnout, the first-stage liquid propellant engines are ignited to push the spacecraft farther towards space.
Course of the Titan III and it’s payload is monitored from a launch center such as this.
Orbiting Stations: Stopovers to Space Travel
Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
TITAN
Artist’s concept of the Titan standard launch vehicle 34-D entering the space.
An artist’s concept of the new modular three-section fairing for the Air Force’s Titan III-C space launch vehicle.
Image credit: USAF
Image source: National Archives
Supersonic Launch Vehicle
AMSC
Image credit: USAF
Image source: AFMC
Space-Age Station
A spaceport and supply rocket designed by the Martin Marietta Corporation in mid-air in this scene from the Hall of Science space show. In such a port, astronauts may orbit for half a year.
New York World’s Fair 1964/1965
Official Souvenir Book
Time Life, 1964
Image credit: Martin Marietta
Image source: Numbers Station
Preliminary Conception
Atlas
Image credit: USAF
Image source: Internet Archive
MOL(e)Men Unleashed!
A manned orbital space space laboratory would be able to operate for several months without resupply. Basic Garrett-AiResearch systems could be slightly modified to meet requirements for environmental control, life support, cryogenic storage, power and attitude control for both the command module and laboratory.
Space World
December 1964, VOL. A-14
Image credit: Garrett-AiResearch
Image source: Numbers Station
