U.S. Air Force News Review X-15 Rocket Plane Project Excelsior Corona Program U-2 87924 (1960)

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This color film "United States Air Force News Review" dates to 1961 and shows events from 1960. Title: The Air Force and Space. August 1960. Edward Air Force Base, California, a pilot gets into an X-15 experimental aircraft. B-52 Bomber takes off with the test aircraft which then is dropped at altitude. The X-15 comes in for a safe landing. Project Excelsior gondola in New Mexico. Project Excelsior was a series of parachute jumps made by Col. Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force in…

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26 minutes