An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of ...

The X-15 is a legendary and pivotal part of aviation history. Designed to fly high and fast, it tested the limits of ...

Key Points and Summary - The X-15 was a rocket-powered research aircraft that pushed human flight to the edge of space and deep into the hypersonic regime. -Air-launched from a B-52, three X-15s flew ...

The X-15 was a key bridge between conventional atmospheric flight and spaceflight. The North American X-15 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever created in the history of aviation and space ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Right now, visitors at the Pima Air & Space Museum can get up close and personal with a museum display unlike any other in the country. A copy of a hyper-sonic machine is now ...

On Nov. 9 1962, an engine failure forced Jack McKay, a NASA research pilot, to make an emergency landing at Mud Lake, Nevada, in the second X-15. Its landing gear collapsed and the X-15 flipped over ...

Click to open image viewer. [NASM2006-12828] 70mm glass-mounted slides from the collection North American X-15 Glass-Mounted Color Transparencies (NASA), NASM.2006.0050. Photo by Mark Avino. CC0 Usage ...

A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Accession number 2006-0041, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Acc. 2006-0041, National ...