Apple QuickTime movie | 1996-06-28 | 5.0 MB | 240x164 | 10fps | 43 seconds | [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: In 1947, the aviator with the right stuff, Chuck Yeager, hopped aboard his X-1 and with a giant boom broke the sound barrier. Over the next 21 years, the X-Series of experimental aircraft took test pilots higher and faster than they had ever flown, gathering data on the effects of altitude and speed at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere. By the time the last X-15 aircraft flew its final run in In 1968, the way was paved for another era of flight and for journeys across the atmospheric divide into space.
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