audiobook Abstracts of Chester County; Pennsylvania; Land Records; Volume 3: 1745-1753 by Carol Bryant in History

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In At the Edge of Space; Milton O. Thompson tells the dramatic story of one of the most successful research aircraft ever flown. The first full-length account of the X-15 program; the book profiles the twelve test pilots (Neil Armstrong; Joe Engle; Scott Crossfield; and the author among them) chosen for the program. Thompson has translated a highly technical subject into readable accounts of each pilot's participation; including many heroic and humorous anecdotes and highlighting the pilots' careers after the program ended in 1968.