Michelle L. Evans

Gebundenes Buch

The X-15 Rocket Plane

Flying the First Wings Into Space

Beschreibung

Discusses the development of the X-15 Rocket Plane, a spacecraft that paved the way for human-controlled spaceflight.

Autor

Michelle Evans is the founder of Mach 25 Media and is an aerospace writer, photographer, and education specialist. She served in the U.S. Air Force working on nuclear missiles, is the producer of several documentaries about space exploration, and is a contributor to Space Daily, space.com, and Ad Astra. Joe H. Engle was the eighth pilot of the X-15 research aircraft and flew sixteen rocket plane missions. He later orbited the earth as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia and again with Discovery.

Produktdetails

• Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9780803228405
• ISBN-10: 0803228406
• Artikelnr.: 36760086