NASA's rocket-powered X-15 experimental plane made its first glide flight. The X-15 rocket plane was part of a series of ...

In the early space race, the X-15 stood as a radical leap in aerospace engineering—an aircraft that broke speed, altitude, ...

The Air Force proposed using the North American X-15, an aircraft capable of flying to space, as opposed to NASA’s preference for a capsule. -The X-15, powered by the Reaction Motors XLR99 ...

A big part of that knowledge came from the X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered research aircraft. According to NASA, the joint research program was run by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and North American ...

Still the fastest airplane ever flown, the North American X-15 earned its title 40 years ago, when on October 3, 1967 Air Force Major William “Pete” Knight flew the rocket-powered aircraft to ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the X-15, the iconic rocket-powered aircraft that pushed the envelope of ...

A California-based startup pulled off two hypersonic flights of its reusable aircraft, which became the first fully autonomous drone to reach Mach 5 speeds. Stratolaunch’s Talon-A2 completed a series ...

There, you will find the smaller, sleek black X-15 aircraft hanging from a pylon of an original B-52 bomber. "Now we have a totally singular piece of history that you can't see anywhere else ...