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With all the Soviet Union's introduction of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Chilly War soared to new heights as Americans feared shedding the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Aircraft explains to the enthralling yet little-known report of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that achieved this obstacle and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who have there been, Michelle Evans catches the drama and exhilaration of, yes, rocket science: how to handle the heat made at speeds up to Mach 7, steps to make a rocket propulsion system that could throttle, as well as how to safely reenter the atmosphere from space and make a precision landing. This book places a individuals face on the feats of science and anatomist that went in to the X-15 program, most of them critical to the development of the Space Shuttle. And, finally, it presents us to the largely unsung pilots of the X-15. By the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 31 American astronauts possessed flown into space - eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. The X-15 Rocket Aircraft restores these pioneers, and the others who achieved it, to their rightful devote the annals of spaceflight.
