Edwards Air Force Base,X-15 Engine Test Complex,Rogers Dry Lake,California,CA

Title: Edwards Air Force Base, X-15 Engine Test Complex, Rogers Dry Lake, east of runway between North Base & South Base, Boron, Kern County, CA
Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Related Names:
U.S. Air Force
De Vries, David G , photographer
Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
Medium: Photo(s): 5
Data Page(s): 18
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
Notes:
Significance: AS the only facility for testing X-15 engines, individually and with the aircraft, the X-15 facility is strongly associated with the United States Man-in-Space program, and particularly with the development of North American Aviation's X-15 rocket aircraft. In 1962, the X-15 became the first aircraft to fly beyond the earth's atmosphere, creating the link between atmospheric flight and space flight. Beginning in 1958, tests performed at the X-15 engine test complex resulted in the data needed to modify and refine the X-15's powerful rocket engine. The X-15 complex has been recommended eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A.
Survey number: HAER CA-235
Building/structure dates: 1958 Initial Construction
Place:
California -- Kern County -- Boron
Latitude/Longitude: 34.99944, -117.64889
Bookmark /ca2571/
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