Decades before hypersonics entered today's headlines, NASA drafted an aircraft that bordered on surreal. Discover the story ...
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X-15: The rocket plane that quietly reached space
The X-15 program pushed human flight into hypersonic speeds and the edge of space long before the Space Shuttle, with pilots ...
The X-15 was a key bridge between conventional atmospheric flight and spaceflight. The North American X-15 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever created in the history of aviation and space ...
Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft ...
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