Brushing the Edge of Space

摘要

A tiny black dart angling in the cobalt sky. Tracking stations listening from lonely mountaintops. The midday moon glaring through a cockpit window at 270,000 feet and a martini waiting in the van at the landing site. Between 1959 and 1968, three X-15 rocketplanes flew to record altitudes. In Michelle Evans' The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space, you're standing on a desert lakebed, looking up.