Michelle L. Evans

The X-15 Rocket Plane

Flying the First Wings Into Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the development of the X-15 Rocket Plane, a spacecraft that paved the way for human-controlled spaceflight.

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Produktdetails

• Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9780803228405
• ISBN-10: 0803228406
• Artikelnr.: 36760086

Autorenporträt

Michelle Evans is the founder of Mach 25 Media and is an aerospace writer, photographer, and education specialist. She served in the U.S. Air Force working on nuclear missiles, is the producer of several documentaries about space exploration, and is a contributor to Space Daily, space.com, and Ad Astra. Joe H. Engle was the eighth pilot of the X-15 research aircraft and flew sixteen rocket plane missions. He later orbited the earth as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia and again with Discovery.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Whole Nine Yards
2. A Record High
3. Gaining Speed
4. Naval Engagement
5. Changing Course
6. Straight and Steady
7. Skipping Out
8. On a Roll
9. Inconel Meets Celluloid
10. Fastest Man Alive
11. Chasing Experiments
12. In the Line of Duty
13. Snow at Edwards
Afterword
Glossary
Sources
Index