X-15 Rocket Plane

The X-15 Rocket Plane

✍ Michael Evans 📂 Library 📅 1960 🏛 University of Nebraska Press 🌐 English

With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and open

The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First

📁 The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space

✍ Michael Evans 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 University of Nebraska Press 🌐 English

With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and open

The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First

📁 The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space

✍ Michelle L. Evans; Joe Engle 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 University of Nebraska Press 🌐 English

With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge a

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X-15: the world's fastest rocket plane a

📁 X-15: the world's fastest rocket plane and the pilots who ushered in the space age

✍ Anderson, John;Passman, Richard 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 MBI;Zenith Press 🌐 English

Why the X-15? -- The advent of the research airplane -- The X-15 airplane and its engines -- The test arena -- The pilots -- The flights.;"The X-15, which flew from 1959-1970, is still the most advanced research aircraft ever developed and flown, and hangs in a place of honor in the Smithsonian's Ai

X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane a

📁 X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age

✍ John Anderson, Richard Passman 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Zenith Press 🌐 English

In X-15, the exciting story of the X-15 - the iconic rocket plane of the Cold War space race - is recounted by John Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This experimental space plane was on the cutting edge of hypersonic aerodynamics, a

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