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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space.
・ISBN 978-1-4962-2984-7 paper US$ 29.95
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| 著者・編者 | Evans, Michelle, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight) |
| 出版社 | (University of Nebraska Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2022 |
| ページ数 | 484 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-38389＞ |
解説
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, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.