NASA X-43A rockets to Mach 9.8 at Edwards
Nov. 19, 2004
After postponing the mission because of a problem with the X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, NASA officials said they could not have hoped for a better flight than the one they had here Nov. 16."It was a great mission," said Joel Sitz, X-43A project manager. "It was 90 seconds of terror, but once