Space Drawing set 18: Early reusable Shuttle booster

Now available: Space Drawing Set 18, containing 22 drawings of the Model 256-20B McDonnell-Douglas/Martin Marietta manned, reusable, flyback Space Shuttle booster from 1971. The Phase B baseline booster was a wing hydrogen/oxygen powered launcher fitted with canards… and fitted within the canards werea multitude of turbofan engines for use in getting back to a landing field for a powered runway landing.

This drawing set contains:

McDonnell-Douglas drawings:

256-20-0001: General Arrangement Model 256-20B Booster (also shows Model 255 orbiter): B&W, 6416X3263 pixels

256-20-0010: Layout - Installation Main Landing Gear: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 11362X3290 pixels

256-20-0011: Layout - Installation Nose Landing Gear: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 7298X3230 pixels

256-20-0015: Nose Section, Booster: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 10568X3168 pixels

256-20-0020: Main Propulsion System installation : Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 11760X2140 pixels

256-20-0027: Inboard profile: Grayscale (with an additional “cleaned” version), 9368X3120 pixels

256-20-0032: ECLS Installation: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 8656X3032 pixels

Martin Marietta drawings:

899-A-2010-599: Wing Structural Assembly: Grayscale (with an additional “cleaned” version), 6902X3143 pixels

899-A-2010-639-1: Canard Structure Assembly, B&W. 4216X3287 pixels

899-A-2010-639-2: Canard Structure Assembly, B&W. 4216-3287 pixels

899-A-2020-648: ACPS Installation: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 8632X3040 pixels

899-A-2020-650: Airbreathing Enginge [sic] Installation: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 8000X3279 pixels

899A2010642: Booster Overall TPS Assembly: Color (with an additional clear grayscale version), 11007X3240 pixels

All drawings also come with half-sized versions for easier viewing and printing. Space Drawing set 18 is spread through 4 ZIPped folders, totalling 92.5 megabytes - hence the split into four separate, more easily uploadable/downloadable ZIP files. Space Drawing 18 can be purchased for $15.


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