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Chargement... The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)par Michelle L. Evans
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I never heard of the X15 and got this book on a whim, intrigued and wanting to learn about the project. Save yourself time and effort, the Wikipedia entry is better written than this book. The author was given amazing access to all the people and all I learned was some nonsense about hiking up mountains and fishing expeditions and wives being unhappy and then having kids and being less unhappy. What am I reading about here? After reading about the project elsewhere on the Internet I can tell you this is a fascinating bit of early space exploration history. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitement of, yes, rocket science: how to handle the heat generated at speeds up to Mach 7, how to make a rocket propulsion system that could throttle, and how to s Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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