The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age
by
John Anderson, Richard Passman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In 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...