re: #300 CuriousLurker

All those guys are my heroes. When I was a kid I followed was a fanboy for the X-15 program. They were flying just a hundred or so miles to the north of me at Edwards AF base. Alum include Neil Armstrong. Back then you would sometimes hear a thud from supersonic flights of whatever kind of plane.

The Soviets had quite a program. Today, we often fly on their gear. Even our cargo flights use Russian engines today. Who would have imagined that back when a spare Apollo (from a canceled moon mission) docked with a Soyuz in a big moment for detente?