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Автор: Evans Michelle L
Название: X-15 Rocket Plane
ISBN: 9780803228405
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История естественных наук

Космонавтика

ISBN-10: 0803228406
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 480
Вес: 0.86 кг.
Дата издания: 01.06.2013
Серия: Outward odyssey: a people`s history of spaceflight
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 45 photographs, 1 glossary
Размер: 165 x 228 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Astrophysics, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics
Подзаголовок: Flying the first wings into space
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 safely reenter the atmosphere from space and make a precision landing.

This book puts a human face on the feats of science and engineering that went into the X-15 program, many of them critical to the development of the space shuttle. And, finally, it introduces us to the largely unsung pilots of the X-15. By the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, thirty-one American astronauts had flown into space—eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.

Дополнительное описание:

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Whole Nine Yards

2. A Record High

3. Gaining Speed

4. Naval Engagement

5. Changing Course

6. Straight and Steady

7. Skipping

X-15 Rocket Plane, Evans Michelle L