De Meuron is a Zurich Film Festival executive and former Roland Emmerich associate who injects this high-flying gem with ...

NASA/Lori LoseyWhat do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, ...

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 ...

After reaching a speed of 114 miles an hour with an RC plane, he wanted to go further and break that record. To do so, he looked towards rocket power, and started a new build. The design consists ...

He flew seven flights in an X-15 and he was involved in both the piloting and engineering of the plane. Although not an official X-plane, this experimental craft paved the way for airplanes as we ...

the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer. Through a series of ...

a professional pulse-pounding short film centered around a brave USAF test pilot recruited by NASA for a suborbital mission aboard the X-15 rocket-powered aircraft. Set in 1961, as the Cold War ...