![]() ![]() I’m glad I finally caught up with it.Īs background, the X-15 was an early experimental research program that tested the ability of a winged spacecraft to complete an atmospheric reentry from space, transition into flight like an airplane and land horizontally on an airstrip. I was surprised to learn about Tregaskis’ book as I had never run across it before. I’ve had a long interest in the X-15, dating back to my early days with TRW doing preliminary studies of NASA’s Space Shuttle. Tregaskis died of an accidental drowning in 1973 at the age of 56. ![]() He later wrote a number of well-received books about those wars, including Guadalcanal Diary. ![]() Richard Tregaskis was a combat news journalist in both the Second World War and the Korean War, and once suffered a severe shrapnel wound while reporting from the front lines. The book was first published in 1961, and while it has never been out of print, it has not been updated or revised since its original publication. On November 8, 2016, Dreamscape Media published an audiobook version of X-15 Diary: The Story of America’s First Space Ship by Richard Tregaskis. ![]()
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