NINETY SECONDS TO SPACE: THE STORY OF THE X-15 Garden City ( by Bergman, J. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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NINETY SECONDS TO SPACE: THE STORY OF THE X-15 Garden City (

by Bergman, J.

New York), 1960: Hanover House, 224 pages, $4.50

This well illustrated over-size book provides a useful history of such research airplanes as the German Me163 and America's D-558-2, X1A, X1B, X2, X3, X4, X5, and XF92, which takes up over a third of the text. The account then moves into the developmental history of the X15 from conception to flight testing, giving intimate details of the airplane, its rocket engines, airframe and engine creators, pilots, and achievements. Interesting pilot-to-control dialogues taken from tapes are scattered throughout the book.


Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III