X-15 Landing on Rogers Dry Lake

This 32-second video taken on April 26, 1968 shows the X-15 hypersonic aircraft approaching and landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert. In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation, Inc., the aircraft flew over a period of nearly 10 years and set the world’s unofficial speed and altitude records of 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7) and 354,200 feet in a program to investigate all aspects of pilot