De Meuron is a Zurich Film Festival executive and former Roland Emmerich associate who injects this high-flying gem with ...
Dyna-Soar is the U.S.’s closest approach to a true spaceship. The X-15 rocket plane will only cruise along the shoreline of space (80 to 90 miles up) at about 4,000 m.p.h. The astronaut in the ...
Shockingly, initial tests in the fall of 1980 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida were promising. The plane took off like a ...
The X-15 was the vaunted hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft that the USAF and NASA operated. The X-24B, meanwhile, was an experimental aircraft that was designed to build and test lifting body ...