THE NAUTILUS- X -was a proposed DSV, crewed by up to 6 for 20 years. Tested initially in Earth/lunar orbits, then voyaging to NEAs & Mars’s moons. It would have serviced the JWST/satellites! Refueled at ISS! And maybe replaced Gateway! It was cancelled for the Orion capsule

The Nautilus-X would have been a type of spacecraft never seen before, a true, piloted, deep space vessel. It could have, and likely would have brought the first human beings, not just to deep space, but to the asteroids, Mars, Mars’s moons and Venus space. We need another.

Yes it’s mid. I just wanted to draw this because I like the setting.

Fanart of @mikusingularity ‘s Hatsunia! A nation whose culture is entirely represented by Hatsune Miku. Pictured, Hatsunian Astronaut Kagura Sakurai on EVA outside of one of many Orbital Hotels. Below her, the nation, Hatsunia. She is doing a live broadcast to school children.

+ Did you know? Atlantis was the last space shuttle launch! She was the final flight of the STS program, and it was a hard-fought battle to let her!

SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS DUMP! Atlantis has TOO MUCH aura. Wrecked on STS-27 (700+ tiles damaged), but flew back safely, saving the crew! She flew THIRTY TIMES AFTER! Sent Magellan to Venus + Galileo to Jupiter! The 100th American crewed spaceflight! + she saved Hubble! GOAT!

THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY I can’t even list all of the cool stuff Discovery did, there’s SO MUCH! The most missions of ANY spacecraft ever! 39! Deployed the Hubble telescope! Built the I.S.S. AND visited Mir twice! + She flew John Glenn back to space at age 77! The Goat.

Which shuttle should I post next??

CARBON FIBRE SLS! CRYOGENIC CREAMSICLE STARSHIP! What if SpaceX was an aging space agency? If NASA was brand new, pushing all limits? I’m obsessed with the black SLS, and now I can’t stop thinking about a blue variant too… Also, they need to paint Starship eventually..

THE SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR NASA couldn’t stop aurafarming if they tried. The Soave Shuttle was flawed, but by god only mechanically, because it was certainly the most beautiful bird in the sky. Goodbye Endeavour! We love you!

A really good request from miss @SparrowMaker101 and upon seeing that we are both extreme Signalis enjoyers I had to slave away bring her to LIFE! IT’S ALIV!E Pictured below are @SparrowMaker101 ‘s screenshots of her wonderful Sarnus ITV. + What the backround almost was..

ITV-YEONG. Miss Yeong is an Interplanetary Transport lady that ferries crew between Earth and Saturn! (Or Sarnus) An artificial gravity ring on top, a solar array, large radiators and two highheel torch engines at her feet! Here she is over Tekto, with her Penrose shuttle..

LKM failed their program to develop the X-33, a replacement to the STS. Had they not been selected for that contract, SLS might have never existed, and if the Lockheed X-33 was never attempted, and the competing replacements shuttles failed.. We may have gotten a MADV HLS..

MADV MY BELOVED DUMP! Lockheed’s reusable lander concept, the MADV! NASA’s Starship! The MADV would have been a surface cargo ferry, and a Lunar Lander! It was intended to be a ‘Moon/Mars Shuttle’ Notably, it would land the same way a Falcon 9 does.. AND LAUNCH ON SLS…

DESTINY CONCEPTS DUMP! credit: @Bungie So in this games story, humanity has a golden age of exploration! And terraforms every world in the solar system! But! Their civilization collapses! And most of these terraformed worlds revert to desolation… Leaving behind echoes..

Not enough people are talking about the fact that Mars station HAS AIRBRAKES! WHAT.?

THE MARS TRANSFER VEHICLE VOYAGER. What if we didn’t just save the external tank Im orbit, but each shuttle as well? What if we used the space shuttle to get to MARS? SHUTTLE DERIVED MARS STATION AMD MARS TRANSFER VEHICLE!!! SO COOL!!!

20 min N1 x SA-V bad doodle SaturnV loves to get right in N1’s face and tell her exactly how she’s going to beat N1 and win the space race once and for all! …N1 likes it too. “Don’t worry. When I’m on the moon, I’ll wait for you to catch up. “ “Бесит, какая ты красивая..”

What if the I.S.S. never stopped growing? I imagine even 1 module a year could have built these, but as you can see, there is a Starship, Two Shuttles and a… Shuttle derived MARSSHIP? So cool! You know how much I love reusing the external tank too! HUGE SEXY ISS DUMP.

LUNAR MINING DUMP. You can pretend it’s mercury if you are upset mercury has not yet been ground down into a dyson swarm. We’re mining on the moon, we carry 1 drill or 2, but there ain’t no ore so we set launch north and mine another tube.