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The X-15 rocket plane : flying the first wings into space / Michelle Evans ; foreword by Joe H. Engle.
- Title
- The X-15 rocket plane : flying the first wings into space / Michelle Evans ; foreword by Joe H. Engle.
- Author
- Evans, Michelle, 1955-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Description
- xxv, 450 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.
- Series Statement
- Outward odyssey
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-434) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The whole nine yards -- A record high -- Gaining speed -- Naval engagement -- Changing course -- Straight and steady -- Skipping out -- On a roll -- Inconel meets celluloid -- Fastest man alive -- Chasing experiments -- In the line of duty -- Snow at Edwards.
- ISBN
- 9780803228405 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803228406 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012047260
- OCLC
- 815824846
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library