The X-15 Rocket Plane : Flying the First Wings into Space Paperback / softback
by Michelle Evans
Part of the Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight series
Paperback / softback
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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 opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitement of, yes, rocket science: how to handle the heat generated at speeds up to Mach 7, how to make a rocket-propulsion system that could throttle, and how to safely reenter the atmosphere from space and make a precision landing. This book puts a human face on the feats of science and engineering that went into the X-15 program, many of them critical to the development of the space shuttle. And, finally, it introduces us to the largely unsung pilots of the X-15.
By the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, thirty-one American astronauts had flown into space—eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15.
The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:484 pages, 45 photographs, 1 glossary, index
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781496229847
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:484 pages, 45 photographs, 1 glossary, index
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781496229847