NAA/NAR/RIfam_v_c_o_TPMBK (verso hand annotated SR288, 9-12-88)
“Rockwell Tradition in High Performance Aerospace Vehicles
Space Shuttle:
The world’s first reusable manned space transportation system. Vertical take-off, winged hypervelocity recovery with horizontal landing.
B-1B:
USAF strategic penetrator with supersonic capability. Features variable wing geometry and onboard systems health monitoring.
Apollo/Saturn:
Manned lunar landing program. Command and services module provided long endurance manned space habitat. Saturn booster is very large cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen integral tank. Rocketdyne J-2 and F-1 engines powered Apollo to the moon.
XB-70:
USAF Mach 3 high altitude strategic weapon system. Heaviest aircraft produced in its time. Smooth hot structure, large integral tanks, required new materials and processes. Pioneered brazed steel honeycomb, ultra-high strength steels and titanium, high temperature, high pressurized hydraulics and landing gear tires.
X-15:
First hypersonic research vehicle. Set speed (Mach 6.7) and altitude (306,900 feet) records for manned winged aircraft. Smooth hot structure pioneering Inconel materials and featuring integral tanks.
X-10/Navaho:
USAF intercontinental supersonic cruise missile utilizing vertical take-off rocket launch and ramjet propulsion for Mach 3 speed. Smooth hot structure with integral tanks.
National Aero-Space Plane:
The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) is a joint DoD/NASA program to develop and demonstrate technology for a new generation of military, civil and commercial aerospace vehicles. This program will provide the technology development and validation by building and flying an X-30 aircraft, a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle, capable of hypersonic cruise and taking off and landing on conventional runways. The NASP program will make possible a space transportation system that is one tenth the cost of existing launch vehicles and civil transportation vehicles with five times the efficiency of today’s aircraft. First flight of the X-30 is planned for 1994.”
All of the above is the Rockwell International description of the lithograph equivalent. Being from circa 1988, the X-30 /NASP figured prominently, both in description & graphic depiction, as it was the contractually sought after aerospace prize of the time.
The striking artwork is by Rockwell International artist Manuel E. Alvarez.
And check this out, this enterprising SOB has gone apeshit with a bunch of photos I’ve posted and/or linked to in my postings:
www.redbubble.com/i/photographic-print/Nasa-s-Aerospace-V...
NAA/NAR/RIfam_v_c_o_TPMBK (verso hand annotated SR288, 9-12-88)
“Rockwell Tradition in High Performance Aerospace Vehicles
Space Shuttle:
The world’s first reusable manned space transportation system. Vertical take-off, winged hypervelocity recovery with horizontal landing.
B-1B:
USAF strategic penetrator with supersonic capability. Features variable wing geometry and onboard systems health monitoring.
Apollo/Saturn:
Manned lunar landing program. Command and services module provided long endurance manned space habitat. Saturn booster is very large cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen integral tank. Rocketdyne J-2 and F-1 engines powered Apollo to the moon.
XB-70:
USAF Mach 3 high altitude strategic weapon system. Heaviest aircraft produced in its time. Smooth hot structure, large integral tanks, required new materials and processes. Pioneered brazed steel honeycomb, ultra-high strength steels and titanium, high temperature, high pressurized hydraulics and landing gear tires.
X-15:
First hypersonic research vehicle. Set speed (Mach 6.7) and altitude (306,900 feet) records for manned winged aircraft. Smooth hot structure pioneering Inconel materials and featuring integral tanks.
X-10/Navaho:
USAF intercontinental supersonic cruise missile utilizing vertical take-off rocket launch and ramjet propulsion for Mach 3 speed. Smooth hot structure with integral tanks.
National Aero-Space Plane:
The National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) is a joint DoD/NASA program to develop and demonstrate technology for a new generation of military, civil and commercial aerospace vehicles. This program will provide the technology development and validation by building and flying an X-30 aircraft, a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle, capable of hypersonic cruise and taking off and landing on conventional runways. The NASP program will make possible a space transportation system that is one tenth the cost of existing launch vehicles and civil transportation vehicles with five times the efficiency of today’s aircraft. First flight of the X-30 is planned for 1994.”
All of the above is the Rockwell International description of the lithograph equivalent. Being from circa 1988, the X-30 /NASP figured prominently, both in description & graphic depiction, as it was the contractually sought after aerospace prize of the time.
The striking artwork is by Rockwell International artist Manuel E. Alvarez.
And check this out, this enterprising SOB has gone apeshit with a bunch of photos I’ve posted and/or linked to in my postings:
www.redbubble.com/i/photographic-print/Nasa-s-Aerospace-V...