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Twelve pilots flew the X-15 over the course of its career. Scott Crossfield and William Dana flew the X-15 on its first and last free flights, respectively. Joseph Walker set the program's top two altitude records on its 90th and 91st free flights (347,800 and 354,200 feet, respectively), becoming the only pilot to fly past the Kármán line, the 100 kilometer, FAI-recognized boundary of outer ...
The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
Sixth Tianzhou resupply cargo flight to the Tiangong space station. 18 January 21:49:11 [21] Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-291 Kennedy LC-39A: SpaceX Ax-3: SpaceX / Axiom Space: Low Earth Private spaceflight: 9 February 13:30: Successful Axiom Mission 3, launching on Crew Dragon. 14-day commercial flight of four astronauts to the ISS. [20] 20 January 06: ...
In one of the most dramatic, high-risk space flights to date, SpaceX launched a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship rocket on an unpiloted test flight Sunday and then used giant "mechazilla ...
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is caught by two massive metal pincers, or "chopsticks," attached to a launch tower during SpaceX Starship's fifth flight test, near Brownsville, Texas, on October 13 ...
The ELaNa-48 mission, consisting of the two CURIE cubesats, was launched on this flight. [14] The two CURIE cubesats were launched as a single spacecraft and separated in orbit (ESA Rideshares - Demo Flight). [15] 10 July 23:40 [28] [29] Hyperbola-1: Y8 Jiuquan LS-95A i-Space: Yunyao-1 15-17 CGSTL: Low Earth Meteorology: 10 July: Launch failure ...
Flight 35 of the North American X-15 was a test flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on March 30, 1961. [1] The X-15 was piloted by Joseph A. Walker to an altitude of 169,600 feet (51.7 km; 32.12 mi) surpassing the stratopause. [2] Thus Walker became the first human to reach the mesosphere. [3]
For live updates on today’s launch, read our story here: Live updates: SpaceX ‘keeping an eye on upper-level winds’ ahead of Vandenberg launch A SpaceX rocket will launch from Vandenberg ...