X-15 : The World's Fastest Rocket Plane And The Pilots Who Ushered In The Space Age Noel Janis-norton Defeat in World War I

Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war

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X-15 : The World's Fastest Rocket Plane And The Pilots Who Ushered In The Space Age Noel Janis-norton Defeat in World War IIn X 15, the exciting story of the X 15 the iconic rocket plane of the Cold War space race is recounted by John Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This experimental space plane was on the cutting edge of hypersonic aerodynamics, and its winged reentry from space foreshadowed the development of the Space Shuttle decades later. Launched from the wing of a modified B 52 bomber again foretelling a concept