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These days, the very NASA has entered the dance eBooks. And to keep his composure, the venerable institution decided to make it big: delivering quality books and for fri.

The gripping story of the legendary X15
Take a look at this page of the U.S. Agency possibly mythical, now that the CIA is losing more and more credibility in international opinion. Do not know what causes them, but to me, gives me chills something like: our friends the geniuses at NASA divulging their secrets, free, and on top-quality editions of Who said the book addresses killed culture?

An example: the first e-book published by NASA is entitled X15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight . It tells the story of a mythical NASA program that aimed to build a super-plane intended for scientific research (mainly around data collection and medical aerodynamic at high altitudes). Taking advantage of the flight, this toy allowed to "Knights of the Sky" out for a spin at Mach 6 to a height of 250,000 feet (we're talking about a trip to 76,200 meters in height at a speed of 4,567 km / h ). The program was officially launched in September 1955. 13 years later, on October 24, 1968, Bill Dana flew the 100909th and last flight of an X-15. This successful program will cost the life of a pilot, Michael Adams, in an accident due to electrical failures in the flight number 191.

This fascinating history is revealed in a complete book of 643 pages, PRC formats (Kindle) or PDF (for Sony Reader, depending on the site, but obviously you can read in most devices, including Your faithful computadorcito). Edit Plan also form "Nook" (I guess this means in the EPUB open format.) The book is of interest to many corners of the adventure presents the technical details, study the military context, detailing the problems of investigations conducted during the program, and gives a detailed history of the early flights was the "active" program. Furthermore, complete with a selection of short biographies of some of his heroes: Armstrong, Becker, White, the aforementioned Dana Adams, etc ...

What next?

This is the good with the gringos: if one believes that it has reached the maximum performance of a matter, they are already thinking about how to do something even more cool. And NASA is not who is going to disappoint. The next book I plan to edit, called Apollo of Aeronautics: NASA's Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program, 1973-1987 , is a matter at least as exciting, just as driven by the global oil crisis, NASA initiated a program aimed at reducing the 15 years oil consumption of aircraft by 50%. And guys, eye, not Clive Cussler says: he tells the very Agency.