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At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program

By Neil Armstrong , Milton O. Thompson

Book information

Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Year
1992
ISBN
1560981075, 9781560981077
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
24 MB (24706923 bytes)
Pages
392\0
Time added
2013-11-28 02:34:50

Description

In At the Edge of Space, Milton O. Thompson tells the dramatic story of one of the most successful research aircraft ever flown. The first full-length account of the X-15 program, the book profiles the twelve test pilots (Neil Armstrong, Joe Engle, Scott Crossfield, and the author among them) chosen for the program. Thompson has translated a highly technical subject into readable accounts of each pilot's participation, including many heroic and humorous anecdotes and highlighting the pilots' careers after the program ended in 1968.

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