For over 45 years, NASA engineers have worked to build the ultimate airplane: an aircraft capable of taking off from a runway and flying into space. Follow engineers as they attempt to develop the technology to change the way we travel and reach space with the radical X-43. After decades of research and development, the first X-43 attempt to reach hypersonic speeds ends in disaster as the vehicle spins out of control and is destroyed.
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