Author: Joseph WeilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Review of the X-15 Program
Author: Joseph WeilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
X-15
Author: Dennis R. JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
1. A new science / 2. A hypersonic research airplane / 3. Conflict and innovation / 4. The million-horsepower engine / 5. High range and dry lakes / 6. Preparations / 7. The flight program / 8. The research program.
The Hypersonic Revolution: From Max Valier to Project PRIME (1924-1967)
Author: Richard HallionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
North American X-15
Author: Peter E. DaviesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472819926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in the two decades following World War II, it was the most successful of the high-speed X-planes. The only recently broken 'sound barrier' was smashed completely by the X-15, which could hit Mach 6.7 and soar to altitudes above 350,000ft, beyond the edge of space. Several pilots qualified as astronauts by flying above 50 miles altitude in the X-15, including Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon. The three X-15s made 199 flights, testing new technologies and techniques which greatly eased America's entry into manned space travel, and made the Apollo missions and Space Shuttle viable propositions. With historical photographs and stunning digital artwork, this is the story of arguably the greatest of the X-Planes.
The Hypersonic Revolution
Author: Richard HallionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
X-15 Research Results
Author: Wendell H. StillwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : X-15 (Rocket aircraft).
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
On the Frontier
Author: Richard HallionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
On the Frontier
Author: Richard P. HallionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flight
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
NASA 50th Anniversary Proceedings: NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives
Author: Steven J. DickPublisher: U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
On 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October of that year. Over the next 50 years, NASA achieved a set of spectacular feats, ranging from advancing the well-established field of aeronautics to pioneering the new fields of Earth and space science and human spaceflight. In the midst of the geopolitical context of the Cold War, 12 Americans walked on the Moon, arriving in peace “for all mankind.” Humans saw their home planet from a new perspective, with unforgettable Apollo images of Earthrise and the “Blue Marble,” as well as the “pale blue dot” from the edge of the solar system. A flotilla of spacecraft has studied Earth, while other spacecraft have probed the depths of the solar system and the universe beyond. In the 1980s, the evolution of aeronautics gave us the first winged human spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station stands as a symbol of human cooperation in space as well as a possible way station to the stars. With the Apollo fire and two Space Shuttle accidents, NASA has also seen the depths of tragedy. In this volume, a wide array of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA’s first 50 years, probing an institution widely seen as the premier agency for exploration in the world, carrying on a long tradition of exploration by the United States and the human species in general. Fifty years after its founding, NASA finds itself at a crossroads that historical perspectives can only help to illuminate.
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