X-15A #2 with full-scale ablative and external tanks installed parked in front of hangar.
X-15A #2 post-flight photo showing heat damage from Mach 6.7 flight on 3 Oct 67.
After receiving a full-scale ablative coating to protect the craft from the high temperatures associated with high-Mach-number supersonic flight, the…
Southwestern US, with Las Vegas, NV in foreground, taken by X-15 Hycon HR-236 Camera during flight 2-39-70 on June 27,…
The X-15A #2 (56-6671) launches away from the B-52 mothership with its rocket engine ignited.
The X-15A #2 (56-6671) is shown on a research flight with a dummy ramjet engine attached to the bottom of…
High-altitude contrails frame the B-52 mothership as it carries the X-15 aloft for a research flight on 13 April 1960…
During a March 11 news conference at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the Sierra Nevada Corporation announced an enhanced partnership…
The NACA X-1E was the last of the X-1 series of aircraft, and its construction benefited from the lessons of…
The blackness of space and airglow of Earth’s horizon provide the backdrop for this scene of the Progress 20 resupply…