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Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight),Used
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Chris Petty has written a book that covers much of the unheralded research into highspeed flight that helped set the stage for human spaceflight. I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the early history of rocket flight.Al Worden, command module pilot for Apollo 15In 1945 some experts still considered the socalled sound barrier an impenetrable wall, while winged rocket planes remained largely relegated to science fiction. But soon a series of unique rocketpowered research aircraft and the dedicated individuals who built, maintained, and flew them began to push the boundaries of flight in aviations quest to move ever higher, ever faster, toward the unknown. Beyond Blue Skies examines the thirtyyear period after World War II during which aviation experienced an unprecedented era of progress that led the United States to the boundaries of outer space.Between 1946 and 1975, an ancient dry lakebed in Californias High Desert played host to a series of rocketpowered research aircraft built to investigate the outer reaches of flight. The western Mojaves Rogers Dry Lake became home to Edwards Air Force Base, NASAs Flight Research Center, and an elite cadre of test pilots. Although one of themChuck Yeagerwould rank among the most famous names in history, most who flew there during those years played their parts away from public view. The risks they routinely accepted were every bit as real as those facing NASAs astronauts, but no magazine stories or free Corvettes awaited themjust long days in a closeknit community in the High Desert.The role of not only the test pilots but the engineers, aerodynamicists, and support staff in making supersonic flight possible has been widely overlooked. Beyond Blue Skies charts the triumphs and tragedies of the rocketplane era and the unsung efforts of the men and women who made amazing achievements possible.
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