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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

Aerodynamics, Hypersonic --- Research aircraft --- X-15 (Rocket aircraft) --- North American X-15 (Rocket aircraft) --- Astronautics --- Manned space flight --- North American airplanes (Military aircraft) --- Rocket planes --- Winged spacecraft --- Aircraft, Experimental --- Aircraft, Research --- Experimental aircraft --- Airplanes --- Aerodynamics of hypersonic flight --- Hypersonic aerodynamics --- Hypersonic speeds --- Hypersonics --- Aerodynamics, Supersonic --- Mach number --- Sound pressure --- Research --- History.