Mockup Diagram Drawings of the Interior of the Space Shuttle, 1981
by Maria Popova“This is a start to get a ‘feeling’ for space.”
This week’s bittersweet farewell to the Space Shuttle Endeavour, on the heels of the recent farewell to Atlantis, sent me reminiscing and rummaging through the San Diego Air & Space Museum archive of public domain images, where I semi-serendipitously discovered these delicious mockup diagram drawings of the interior of the Space Shuttle circa 1981:
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