The X-15 was the vaunted hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft that the USAF and NASA operated. The X-15 was a remarkable machine, depicted recently in the film First Man, in a recounting of an ...

"The successful execution of the aerobraking maneuver underscores the U.S. Space Force’s commitment to pushing the bounds 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 ...

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 ...