X-15 | Flight 90
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
July 19, 1963, 6:20 p.m. - July 19, 1963, 6:20 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
July 19, 1963, 6:20 p.m. - July 19, 1963, 6:20 p.m.
Flight 90 of the North American X-15 was a test flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force in 1963. It was the first of two X-15 missions that passed the 100-km high Kármán line.
The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
Third X-15 experimental rocket plane. Destroyed during flight 191.
North American X-15 Details
Date of
Birth: Feb. 20, 1921
Date of Death:
June 8, 1966
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