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

Evans, Michelle

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1496229843 ISBN 13: 9781496229847

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2022

Riassunto

<p>With the Soviet Union&#8217;s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. <i>The X-15 Rocket Plane</i> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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 <i>Apollo 11</i> moon landing, thirty-one American astronauts had flown into space&#8212;eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. <i>The X-15 Rocket Plane</i> restores these pioneers to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.<br> &#160;</p>

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<b>Michelle Evans</b> is the founder of Mach 25 Media and is an aerospace writer, photographer, and education specialist. She served in the U.S. Air Force working on nuclear missiles, is the producer of several documentaries about space exploration, and is a contributor to <i>Space Daily</i>, space.com, and <i>Ad Astra</i>. <b>Joe H. Engle</b> was the eighth pilot of the X-15 research aircraft and flew sixteen rocket plane missions. He later orbited the earth as the commander of the space shuttle <i>Columbia</i> and again with <i>Discovery</i>.<br> &#160;<br> &#160;

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1496229843
• ISBN 13: 9781496229847
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile