From the ground up / by Anabelle Marshall.
June 1959, at the height of the cold war, 56 years after the Wright Brothers first left the ground in a wood and canvas machine, engineers were about to launch an experimental rocket plane in California, a plane that is hoped will one day make science fiction a reality and fly humans into space. It&...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC),
2009.
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| Series: | World history in video.
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| Summary: | June 1959, at the height of the cold war, 56 years after the Wright Brothers first left the ground in a wood and canvas machine, engineers were about to launch an experimental rocket plane in California, a plane that is hoped will one day make science fiction a reality and fly humans into space. It's called the X-15. Flying 67 miles high, the X-15 test pilots skim the edges of space. |
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| Item Description: | Previously released on DVD. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (52 min.). |