At the Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program

In At the Edge of Space, Milton O. Thompson, a pilot active in the X-15 program from beginning to end, tells the dramatic story of one of the most successful research aircraft ever flown.

• The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
• North American X-15 Owner's Workshop Manual: All types and models 1959-1968
• Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15 (Revised Edition) (Specialty Press)
• A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
• From the Earth to the Moon
• X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age (Smithsonian Series)
• Flying Without Wings (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight)
• Spyflights and Overflights: US Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance 1945-1960