03859cam a2200793 4500 521603343 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781610589277 1610589270 B00IHYGVLI Amazon B00IHYGVLI Amazon B00IHYGVLI Amazon d7f64a29-4fc4-493f-b516-85aef5ec53aa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1562579 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Anderson, John. X-15 [Libby] : The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age. Zenith Press, 2014. Cold war. Smithsonian. Rocketry. space race. nasa. space age. military aviation. air force. US Air Force. astronauts. mothership. blackbird. hypersonic. rocket plane. f-104. sr-71. aviation books. north american aviation. sound barrier. spy plane. x-15. B-52. spyplane. apollo 50 years. 50th anniversary moon landing. ala summer reading. x planes. x-planes. universe of stories. collaborative summer library program. cslp. mother ship. naa. rocket powered. x15. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 19MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Science. Technology. Physics. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>In <i>X-15</i>, 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, and its winged reentry from space foreshadowed the development of the Space Shuttle decades later. Launched from the wing of a modified B-52 bomber—again foretelling a concept that would be used decades later, in this case by SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo—the ship rocketed higher and faster than any manned aircraft of the time. Designed to approach seven times the speed of sound, it was the first hypersonic aircraft ever created and was engineered to function both in the Earth's atmosphere and at the edge of space. Illustrated with period NASA and USAF photographs, as well as exclusive Smithsonian photography of the first of three X-15s built, <i>X-15</i> captures the risks and dangers of the X-15 program as Anderson follows the test pilots (including Neil Armstrong) who pushed the very limits of their piloting skills to master groundbreaking experimental technology. Even with the fatal crash of the third X-15, the overall success of the program helped pave the way for NASA to continue to the Moon—and this is the definitive, expertly curated, and beautifully illustrated account of its development.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Passman, Richard. https://samples.overdrive.com/x-15-d7f64a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/x-15-d7f64a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/x-15-d7f64a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)