NASA's X-43A poised for historic air-breathing hypersonic flight
At NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California, the unpiloted X-43A demonstrator is being prepared to take a record-breaking one-way trip into the Pacific Ocean next month. The flight will mark the first time a non-rocket engine has powered a vehicle at "hypersonic" speeds - higher than Mach...
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