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The X-15 Rocket Plane
- Flying the First Wings Into Space
Engelsk
Bogcover for The X-15 Rocket Plane af Michelle Evans, 9781496229847
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496229847
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1496229843
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2022
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,8 x 3,2
Serie:
Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2022
Forfatter(e):
Paperback 2022
Format:

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With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitement of, yes, rocket science: how to handle the heat generated at speeds up to Mach 7, how to make a rocket propulsion system that could throttle, and how to safely reenter the atmosphere from space and make a precision landing. This book puts a human face on the feats of science and engineering that went into the X-15 program, many of them critical to the development of the Space Shuttle. And, finally, it introduces us to the largely unsung pilots of the X-15. By the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, thirty-one American astronauts had flown into space-eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496229847
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1496229843
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2022
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,8 x 3,2
Serie:
Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2022
Forfatter(e):
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