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"Artist concepts of Space Stations under study."

 

I know I've seen each one of these over the years...best guess is upper right is a von Braun design/era, lower right, uhhmm, Lockheed?/Douglas?, lower left...some sort of S-IVB/Centaur/Gemini-MOL mutation, and upper left the unfolding inflatable one by whoever it was, Goodyear/Goodrich? (you get confused). Note the flip-top Apollo-like CSM configurations, not to mention the large flip-top capability of the the station itself in the lower right, to apparently swallow the "Apollo". That particular proposal apparently was part of "Project Olympus":

 

spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/11/space-station-res...

Credit: David S. F. Portree/"No Shortage of Dreams" blogspot

 

Note that this is a photograph of photographs (and strips of paper with title/sub-title) laid out on a surface.

 

Upper left quadrant artwork by Grant Lathe.

 

See also:

 

repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/17610/nasm_Space...

Credit: Smithsonian Libraries website

 

gizmodo.com/9-forgotten-nasa-concepts-for-space-stations-...

Credit: Gizmodo

 

www.pinterest.com/pin/62698619798672200/visual-search/?x=...

Credit: Pinterest

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