The X-15 rocket plane [electronic resource] : flying the first wings into space / Michelle Evans ; foreword by Joe H. Engle.
Evans, Michelle, 1955-
2013
TL789.8.U6 X514 2013eb
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Title The X-15 rocket plane [electronic resource] : flying the first wings into space / Michelle Evans ; foreword by Joe H. Engle.
Author Evans, Michelle, 1955-
ISBN 9780803246843 (electronic book)
9780803228405
Publication Details Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 450 p.) : ill.
Call Number TL789.8.U6 X514 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 629.133/38
Summary With the Soviet Union{u2019}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{u2014}eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Outward odyssey.
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