The Flight Research Center attempted the 200th X-15 flight, but it was cancelled when a snowstorm enveloped Edwards AFB. The pilot was Major William J. "Pete" Knight. The X-15 never flew again.
The Flight Research Center attempted the 200th X-15 flight, but it was cancelled when a snowstorm enveloped Edwards AFB. The pilot was Major William J. “Pete” Knight. The X-15 never flew again.
When the X-15 program was approved in 1954, experts in aviation medicine were not sure that a pilot could withstand the two minutes of weightlessness of a high altitude mission. This was four times longer than that experienced by a jet pilot flying a parabolic trajectory.NASA Photo
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