STSprog_v_bw_o_n (NAR Space Div photo, no. AJL071972)
“SPACE SHUTTLE SYSTEM--Space Shuttle orbiter deploys satellite payload that will be carried to synchronous orbit by command-controlled Space Tug, following delivery of payload to Earth orbit. North American Rockwell’s (NR) Space Division will build multi-billion dollar reusable shuttle space transportation system under contract to National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Space Shuttle will be able to deliver up to 65,000 pounds of varied payload to Earth orbit, then return to Earth for future missions.”
Note the low-mounted & canted/angled OMS pod(s). And of course at this time, the hinged, flip-out forward RCS thrusters.
Thanks to the excellent “SECRET PROJECTS Forum” website, specifically, user flateric’s June 4, 2007 post, the orbiter depicted is “Pre-Phase-C, Configuration E-0401”. As extracted from AIAA paper 78-1469, “Space Shuttle Orbiter Configuration Case History”, presented at the AIAA AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Los Angeles, California, August 21-23, 1978. OUTSTANDING! At (account (recommended) required to resolve):
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/us-space-shuttle-project...
Artwork possibly by Henry Lozano Jr.? Donald Bester? Or, although I think it’s before his time, Manuel E. Alvarez?
STSprog_v_bw_o_n (NAR Space Div photo, no. AJL071972)
“SPACE SHUTTLE SYSTEM--Space Shuttle orbiter deploys satellite payload that will be carried to synchronous orbit by command-controlled Space Tug, following delivery of payload to Earth orbit. North American Rockwell’s (NR) Space Division will build multi-billion dollar reusable shuttle space transportation system under contract to National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Space Shuttle will be able to deliver up to 65,000 pounds of varied payload to Earth orbit, then return to Earth for future missions.”
Note the low-mounted & canted/angled OMS pod(s). And of course at this time, the hinged, flip-out forward RCS thrusters.
Thanks to the excellent “SECRET PROJECTS Forum” website, specifically, user flateric’s June 4, 2007 post, the orbiter depicted is “Pre-Phase-C, Configuration E-0401”. As extracted from AIAA paper 78-1469, “Space Shuttle Orbiter Configuration Case History”, presented at the AIAA AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Los Angeles, California, August 21-23, 1978. OUTSTANDING! At (account (recommended) required to resolve):
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/us-space-shuttle-project...
Artwork possibly by Henry Lozano Jr.? Donald Bester? Or, although I think it’s before his time, Manuel E. Alvarez?