The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings Into Space

With the Soviet Union\’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the first Wings into Space tells the enthralling, yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met the challenge and opened the way into human controlled spaceflight.