Hermes mockup my beloved

I now have over 1000 bits of shuttle concept art favorited on Flickr, sorted by contractor and model name

Late Phase-B shuttle looked so cool...

Some recent Buran finds. medium.com/fifty-one-po...

Another Vadim Lukashevich gem. This time, the setup for ejection seat tests during Progress flights to Mir. The first generation of the Progress used standard Soyuz launch abort towers and Progress 38 through 42 flew with a Zvezda K-36RB seat and a dummy cosmonaut that ejected after tower jettison.

A lovely image from the NK forum: a mockup of the RD-150, a 1000 tonne thrust kerolox engine for the RLA family, which later evolved into the Energia and Zenit.

Most likely drawn in 1987

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How many Buran orbiters were actually built? More than you think. Here's every one of them - it's a long one. medium.com/@energiabura...

buran amirite

Ariane 5 flavors

cool lil guy on ebay

Space Station Freedom Propulsion Module!

eww

Grumman models 518 and 532.

you're welcome www.flickr.com/photos/galop...

More ALS

super cool Shuttle-C concept painting

i knew these concept paintings were really big due to the amount of detail but i didnt know they were quite this massive

sortie can and spacelab

really cool Spacelab program covers with the already obsolete early "Vehicle 1" Shuttle configuration

Rockwell docking port

one more hotol illustration

McDonnell Douglas Phase C proposal for the Space Shuttle External Tank. The design would lose out to one proposed by Martin Marietta, but the isogrid hydrogen tank eventially made its way to the Shuttle ET as part of the Super Light Weight Tank upgrades in the 90s.

Space Station Fred

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so good

Another ALS piece!

would slap as a tshirt for nerds

hey this looks pretty great with some basic stabilisation

a lovely montage of the N1 trying so very hard and finding out

Space Station Freedom redesign at Man-Tended Capability.

bong

truss structure more over the top than the drums in "holding out for a hero" but i love both

new Mike Acs scan of "Space Shuttle Visits Construction Facility" by John Olson, color corrected by yours truly

The “Manned Spacecraft Servicing Unit" tower for Zenit launches with Zarya has just been demolished. Zarya was a propulsively landed capsule with Buran heat protection tiles that was in dev in the 80s as the ferry to Mir-2 and a successor to the Soyuz. My write-up on Zarya linked in quoted bleet.

Space Station Freedom elements by organization

two more Alan Chinchar pieces for Spacehab

I love Freedom illustrations

lovely two-engine Shuttle-C

One of my all-time favorites, the "Fred" redesign of Space Station Freedom with an integrated truss. Illustration by Paul Hudson

Neat ET-based station

original Galina Balashova drawing

Soyuz T-15 and the Mir core module.

bubble butt

forbidden SSVP-M with passive APAS soft-dock petals

MOL launch

me whenever google lens is asking to redirect me and the url is purple

more glimpses of the remaining fragments of the destroyed Buran orbiter 1K are starting to appear

the famed RLA model throuple