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X-15: The NASA Mission Reports
X-15 The NASA Mission Reports comes with a bonus Windows CD-ROM featuring NASA and USAF movies, hundreds of images, books, Quicktime VR and an exclusive interview with Bill Dana last man to fly the X-15. The history of aviation in the 20 th century is filled with remarkable accomplishments. None more remarkable than the world’s first winged spacecraft. From 1957 to 1975 the United States and the Soviet Union played a high stakes game as they put crew after crew atop barely-perfected missiles and hurled them further and further afield. In 1952, long before Sputnik, the NACA along with the United States Air Force and Navy determined to build an aircraft that would be capable of reaching into outer space. While the rest of the world continued to fly around in propeller-driven aircraft, North American Aviation of California constructed a one-seater bullet powered by a rocket engine with unparalleled thrust. When the craft was unveiled in 1958, the hypersonic vehicle was as bold as anything ever attempted in the history of flight.
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