Research Project X-15

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Technology Documentary hosted by Jack Webb, published by National Archives in 1962 - English narration

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Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States. The North American X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the small, black, rocket-powered, bullet-shaped X-15 showed it was possible to fly into - and out of - space. Launched from the wing of a modified B-52 bomber the ship rocketed higher and faster than any manned aircraft of the time. There had never been anything like the X-15; it had a million-horsepower engine and could fly twice as fast as a rifle bullet. The X-15 set records that stood for years. In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation the aircraft flew over a period of nearly 10 years and set the world's unofficial speed and altitude records in a program to investigate all aspects of piloted hypersonic flight. Information gained from the highly successful X-15 program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo piloted spaceflight programs as well as the Space Shuttle program.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 1 586 Kbps
Video Resolution: 832x632
Video Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frames Per Second: 29.970 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 27 min
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 348 MB
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