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Claudio:

[Private e-mail to you bounces, and this message may be interesting to
a few others, so I'm posting it.]

>I would like to know where I could get hold of X-15 pictures for 
>possible publication. I am also interested, specifically, in a picture of 
>one of the first flights of the X-15 that was flown by Scott Crossfield in 
>which the (space)craft crashed and was broken in its very middle 
>(Crossfield survived). I have never seen a picture of the X-15 after this 
>accident and I am curious how it looked like.

It's strange to have somebody at a NASA center post a question like
this to the Net!  The NASA centers are the best sources of information
on this sort of thing...

Contact the Public Affairs Office at Langley, and ask them to help you
get in touch with the PAO at Ames-Dryden (where the X-15 project was
operated).  I imagine they have a collection of photos.

I just checked the new book on the X-15, *At the Edge of Space* by
Milton O. Thompson, one of its pilots.  It has the picture you're
looking for.  Jules Bergman's *Ninety Seconds to Space*  has another
photo of the accident, but it's not very illuminating-- a close-up of
the broken spot in the fuselage.

I'd recommend you hit Langley's library, and look for other books I
haven't checked, like *The X-Planes* by Jay Miller, Richard Hallion's
book on supersonic research, or maybe older books, like Scott
Crossfield's autobiography.  Since Langley is an aeronautical center, 
I'll bet the library has a lot of material on the X-15.

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