CANCEL
Flight 90 (X-15)
Launch Date
July 19, 1963
Craft
X-15
Status
Past
Crew
1
Flight 90 (X-15)
Launch Date
July 19, 1963
Craft
X-15
Status
Past
Crew
1
Overview
This joint NASA-Air Force mission saw an X-15 plane climb to 106 km, making this a suborbital flight by all U.S. and international standards.
Crafts
X-15
The X-15 was a supersonic rocket aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and NASA. Thirteen of its flights climbed higher than 80 km, the U.S. boundary to space. Two flights rose above 100 km, the internationally recognized border to space.
