Aug 302009
 

Based on the generic NASA 040 configuration. This was clearly getting close to the final Orbiter configuration as actually built, but differed in several important respects… wingtip RCS units, 4 J-2S engines (rather than 3 SSMEs), a raised cupola over the cockpit, two manipulator arms, a docking adapter in the nose, two turbojets.

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  One Response to “McDonnell Douglas Space Shuttle, 1971”

  1. I got to play in a mock-up of this during a MD-open house the weekend Nixon resigned.

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