Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X15,Used

Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X15,Used

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Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the small, black, rocketpowered, bulletshaped X15 showed it was possible to fly into and out of space. There had never been anything like the X15; it had a millionhorsepower engine and could fly twice as fast as a rifle bullet. The X15 set records that stood for years.Specialty Press's bestseller, Hypersonic, has been rereleased in a softbound format at a reduced price. This book is the most extensively researched history of the X15 program yet published. The book was written with the cooperation of surviving X15 pilots as well as many other program principals and is based on six years of research in Air Force, NASA, and North American archives. It covers the tasks of converting and testing the B52 carrier airplanes, building the first fullpressure suits to protect the pilot, building the first engineering mission simulators, acquiring the remote lakebed landing sites, and building the radar range. It also covers the flight program in detail, including the most authoritative flight log ever assembled; in many instances, information in this log was derived from the original flightdata recordings. Also covered are each of the experiments that were flown aboard the X15 late in its career when it became the workhorse of the space program, carrying such things as startrackers destined for the Apollo program and missiledetection systems that would later be sent into orbit on satellites.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

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