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    Flight 90 of the North American X-15 was a research flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on July 19, 1963. It was the first of two X-15 missions...
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    The flights of the North American X-15, an experimental American spaceplane built by North American Aviation and operated by the United States Air Force...
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    achieved during Flight 90 a month earlier by the same pilot, Joseph A. Walker. It was the highest flight of the X-15 program. Flight 91 was the first...
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    The North American X-15's Flight 188 on October 3, 1967, was a record-setting flight. William J. Knight took the X-15A-2 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft...
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  • sub-orbital flight; examples include crewed vehicles, such as the X-15 and SpaceShipTwo, and uncrewed ones, such as ICBMs and sounding rockets. Flights which...
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    Joseph A. Walker (category X-15 program)
    United States definition of the boundary of space. The latter two, X-15 Flights 90 and 91, also surpassed the Kármán line, the internationally accepted...
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    reached in September 2023. Man - Joe Walker (born 20 February 1921), on X-15 Flight 90 on 19 July 1963 (about 12 minutes.) Woman - Wally Funk (born 1 February...
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    sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights 90 and 91, SpaceShipOne flights 15P, 16P and 17P, and Soyuz 18a. Astronautix Similarly...
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    of 50 mi (80 km; 264,000 ft), are listed at the X-15's highest flights and the VSS Unity test flights. All entries are dated from launch time in Coordinated...
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    American X-15 in mission X-15 Flight 91 on August 22, 1963. Walker had reached 106 km – crossing the Kármán line the first time – with X-15 Flight 90 the previous...
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