First Flights with Neil Armstrong (26/39) : Rocket Aircraft

For educational purposes

In the 1920s, aircraft designers began searching for ways to incorporate the powerful propulsion of rockets into their flying machines.

Efforts to harness and control rocket propulsion resulted in many failures but also some dramatic successes.

Featured Aircraft:
- NASA Saturn V Rocket
- North American X-15
- Martin Marietta X-24
- NASA M2-F1
- NASA Space Shuttle
- NASA Gulfstream jet modified as a Space Shuttle landing simulator