North American Aviation X-15 Space Age Pioneer
The experimental X-15 carried the first human into the weightless realm above. Devoid of the oxygen essential to life, space is defined as beginning at an altitude of 62 miles. Many of the 199 missions (each was brief) penetrated the inky black boundary of outer space. Eight of the dozen X-15 pilots were ultimately awarded astronaut wings. It was enough to make the fictional pulp fiction hero Buck Rogers swoon. In fact, Neil Armstrong, the...
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