X-15 | Flight 90
Launch Successful
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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
North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, 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.
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