Star Trek The Official Starships Collection | OV-165 with Magazine Issue 128 by Eaglemoss Hero Collector

Star Trek The Official Starship Collection OV-165. The OV-165 starship, a 21st-century space shuttle with aerospike engines that could reach low Earth orbit.The OV-165 was a successor to the Space Shuttle, and it was used to reach Earths orbit. It took off vertically, but did not need booster rockets to break free of Earths atmosphere. Instead, it used it's aerospike engines that could blast it into space; it could then land back on Earth like a conventional airplaneInside the magazine, find out how illustrator John Eaves came up with a believable design for an immediate successor to NASAs Space Shuttle for the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise, plus how the special effects were put together for Broken Bow, the pilot episode.