The X-15 rocket plane : flying the first wings into space /
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. This book tells the enthralling (yet little-known) story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight.
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