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				(L-R) X-15 Launch Panel Operator Bill Berkowitz, with B-52 pilots Cap. Jack Allavie, and Cap. Charlie Bock. ArmstrongFlight Research Center

	Jerry Reedy down inside the equipment bay, behind the X-15's cockpit. Erik Reedy collection



			Groundbreaking ceremony for the NACA High Speed Flight Station at Edwards AFB on 27 Jan. 1953. Director Walt Williams is in the center (with shovel), and to the left is Joe Vensel, Director of Flight Operations. Williams was also the original head of the X-15. ArmstrongFlight Research Center

	Paul Bikle, head of the X-15 program, briefs a visiting senatorial committee. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Employees of the Electronic Engineering Company at the Beatty High Range station.

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Technician working on an X-15, fueled and loaded on the B-52 pylon.

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	TD Barnes at the Beatty High Range site. He is standing beneath a radar dish used to track the X-15 as it flies overhead. ArmstrongFlight Research Center

			Armstrong, White, and Walker with author Richard Tregaskis and an LR-11. photo by Walton Tregaskis

Bill Dana (R) with the crew of the F-107 that was used to simulate X-15 landings.

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Hartley Soulé being interviewed for the NASA film "Research Project: X-15."

NASA Headquarters

North American Aviation's X-15 Program Manager Hartley Soulé

with models of the X-15 and X-1E on his desk.

NASA Headquarters

Harrison Storms said that Hartley Soulé "was the glue that held this project in line."

On the shelf beneath the X-15 model is an X-3 Stiletto.

NASA Headquarters



			Harry superimposed on film of an LR-99 rocket engine firing, from the NASA documentary "Research Project: X-15." NASA Headquarters

	Harry Koch of Reaction Motors. He was in charge of XLR-99-RM-1 development. NASA Headquarters

	— The World Congress of Flight —

The World Congress of Flight took place from 12 to 19 Apr. 1959 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a premiere event to show off the newly-opened Convention Center. It's stated purpose was "to bring together all elements of flight — designers, producers, operators, administrators and users — to unite them in a common cause; the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics."

One of the highlights of the show was the mockup of the X-15, which drew many distinguished visitors, including the first four X-15 pilots themselves.



	Scott Crossfield sits in the X-15 mockup's cockpit while Robert White, Joe Walker, and Forrest Petersen look on. At the time of the Congress, Scotty was the only one of the four who had been aloft in the X-15, although only for captive or aborted flights, including twice in April, just prior to coming to Las Vegas for this event. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

			A sign attached to the side of the trailer that held the X-15 mockup showed a crude depiction of the rocket plane dropping from the B-52's wing, along with a brief description of how the missions would be accomplished. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada, checks out the X-15 mockup at the World Congress of Flight. The sign next to Sen. Cannon in the left-hand image says "X-15, America's First Manned Space Airplane, Manufactured by North American Aviation for NASA • US Air Force • US Navy." Behind the X-15 in the right-hand image is a Thor-Able mockup.

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Sen. Cannon shows off the X-15 to Senator Stephen Young of Ohio. Behind the X-15 mockup in the right-hand image is a Northrop SM-62 Snark.

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The X-15, serial no. 56-0000, sits on the tarmac at McCarran Airport. Note the people using the X-15 flatbed trailer for shade from the Nevada sun.

Note that this is either before or after the above set of photos with Sen. Cannon since the X-15 is in a different cradle.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

	Following the X-15s appearance at the World Congress of Flight, Sen. Cannon took a group from the Air Force Ballistic Missile Headquarters out to Edwards AFB in California, to check out the real X-15. Their tour guide was NAA pilot Scott Crossfield.

Scott Crossfield discusses the X-15 with Sen. Cannon.

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Scotty points out systems in the X-15's cockpit to members of the group.

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Crossfield has his arm drapped around the canopy support for X-15 no. 2.

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Everyone wants a turn on the cockpit. Note the shield on the nose probe for safety.

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More members of the Air Force Ballistic Missile group want into the cockpit.

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The Air Force Ballistic Missile Headquarters group gather around the X-15 for a group photo.

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