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Exploring the Limits of Speed | the X-15

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The X15 was designed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , NACA , forerunner of NASA .

It was designed to explore the limits of speed and even venture above the atmosphere to the edge of space.

3X Fifteens were built but the third was destroyed in 1967 when it came apart at Mach 5 , killing its pilot Major Michael Adams .

Some 200 flights were made with the modified second aircraft X15A2 attaining a maximum altitude of 354,200 feet .

The program carried out ramjet propulsion experiments, aerial photography, ultraviolet photography of stars, observations of the Earth 's horizon at different wavelengths as a reference for planned spacecraft stabilisation systems, atmospheric density measurements, micro meteoroid collection, and measurements of the intensity, polarization and spectral distortion of light. Considering all its findings, the US $300 million X 15 program was considered a bargain..

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