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Project Apollo: Saturn 1b

Apollo Program

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8x10 Print NASA Little Joe Launch Testing Escape Rocket 1960 #2017167 | eBay
8x10 Print NASA Little Joe Launch Wallops Island 1960 #2017168 | eBay

Apollo Spacecraft Development

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The American Apollo spacecraft as seen in Earth orbit from the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. Note the special docking module attached to the Apollo capsule, specifically designed to allow the two spacecraft to join in orbit.
Apollo-Soyuz
17 July 1975 - Apollo–Soyuz : An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit - the first time by 2 nations. #Apollo50th

Apollo/Soyuz (US/Russia)

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Atlas D series, Assembly Line-------2-24-59; caption: Atlas D Ass[embl]y Line, D Missiles on docks

Atlas V (US)

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Sputnik II - launched Laika, Earth's first Space Traveler, into Space.
Belka and Strelka Inside Their Space Capsule, 1960
Strelka and Belka return from space!

Belka & Strelka (Russia)

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Bell X-1 | National Air and Space Museum

Bell X-1

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NASA's Next Generation Space Shuttle - Dream Chaser
X-38, ISS Crew Return Vehicle, 1st Flt 1999, Cancelled 29 Apr 2002, No. Built 2+1 Orbital Type
In anticipation of this pickle, NASA started a competition to encourage companies to build their own spaceships. Boeing and SpaceX came out on top.

Dream Chaser Shuttle (Sierra Nevada - US)

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... gotta move those lunar MTV's! | by x-ray delta one

Early Moon Landing Concepts

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space station / Torus Wheel
THE U.S.S.R. CELEBRATES SPUTNIK II IN AIR; VAST DISPLAY IN MOSCOW - "New Fuels and Methods for Trips To Moon" - LIFE Magazine, November 18, 1957 (COVER: Wernher von Braun, Top U.S. Space Expert and Moon rocket Model)

Early Spaceflight/Space Station Concepts

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riedel v-2 rocket world war 2
A V-2 rocket is being raised to a vertical position for firing.
Close-up of V2

Early Rocket Development

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Explorer XVII Satellite | NASA

Explorer Program

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Here's every spaceship that's ever carried an astronaut into orbit | Space
in 1966, Gemini IX-A, the 7th crewed mission, launches on a 3-day flight:  (link: http://go.nasa.gov/1o3zt1b) go.nasa.gov/1o3zt1b

Gemini Program

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All sizes | iss028e048212 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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International Space Station (ISS)

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Laika..17
Laika Space Dog Illustration Vector Russian Propaganda Pup Retro Vintage Posters
Laika, the first living creature sent into space, never meant to return to Earth, 1957.

Laika, First Animal in Space (Russia)

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Article about the history of the Martin SV-5 lifting body shape as used for the AF PRIME tests, the X-24A and NASA X-38 vehicles
Has anyone done a HL-10 Lifting body? | Page 8 | RPF Costume and Prop Maker Community

Lifting Body/Space Plane Development (US)

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... early lunar lander mock-up | - video clip | James Vaughan | Flickr
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Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) Concepts (US)

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Final preparations being made to Alan Shepard's Redstone rocket in 1961.

Mercury Program

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MIR Space Station (Russia)

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Orion spacecraft in closeup with Washington Monument in left of frame
NASA's Space Launch System
NASA is building its own rocket and spacecraft, called Space Launch System, but that program won't fly its first astronauts until June 2022 at the earliest.

Orion Spacecraft

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Anatomy of an Ion Engine
ORBITEC flight tests new vortex liquid fuel rocket engine
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Propulsion Systems

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Analog Buran conducting landing tests

USSR / Russian Shuttle Program (Buran)

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Lunokhod 2, soviet Moon-rover. Ogoniok, April 1973.
The surface of venus.

Russian Space Probes

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With the protective micrometeoroid shield missing, it became necessary to shield the workshop from the Sun by other means. A number of methods were devised, and two were ultimately used. The three sketches show the schemes selected. The upper sketch depicts shading by means of the rectangular parasol, which was deployed from inside the workshop by the first crew. The second concept called for the astronauts to rig a shield from the command and service module maneuvering alongside Skylab. Thi...

Skylab (US)

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Saturn’s rings are perhaps the most recognized feature of any world in our solar system. Cassini spent more than a decade examining them more closely than any spacecraft before it.

Solar System

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Apollo || Orion || CST-100 || Dragon Comparison
Did the Soviets Actually Build a Better Space Shuttle? - Popular Mechanics

Spacecraft Comparison

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