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The Kármán line (or von Kármán line / v ɒ n ˈ k ɑːr m ɑː n /) [2] is a conventional definition of the edge of space; it is widely but not universally accepted. The international record-keeping body FAI (Fédération aéronautique internationale) defines the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 kilometres (54 nautical miles; 62 miles ...
In 2010 Sign Language, [2] about an idealistic human billboard in London's Oxford Street, won the Reed Short Film Competition and Virgin Media Shorts. [3]His 2015 film The Kármán Line, [4] starred Olivia Colman as a wife and mother who contracts an illness causing her to gradually levitate.
"The Kármán Line" (music), a 2009 composition by Peter Meechan (composer) The Kármán Line (film), a 2014 short film by Oscar Sharp starring Olivia Colman that won best short at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards and nominated at the 2015 BAFTAs "The Karman Line" (episode), 2019 season 2 number 5 episode 27 of TV series New Amsterdam
Maximum Speed - 5,971 km/h. Maximum Altitude - 106,010 m. 80 cm diameter balloon towed on 30 m line to measure air density. First X-15 flight over 100 km (a height known as the Kármán line). This made Walker the first US civilian in space. [1] This was also the first spaceflight of a spaceplane in aviation history. First flight launched over ...
Universal newsreel about the launch. The famous photograph was taken with an attached DeVry 35 mm black-and-white motion picture camera. [3] [6] The flight was an addition to the Hermes program which had been ongoing since 1944.
X-15 Flight 91 was an August 22, 1963 American crewed sub-orbital spaceflight, and the second and final flight in the program to fly above the Kármán line, which was previously achieved during Flight 90 a month earlier by the same pilot, Joseph A. Walker. It was the highest flight of the X-15 program.
In July and August 1963, pilot Joe Walker exceeded 100 km in altitude, joining NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts as the first human beings to cross that line on their way to outer space. The USAF awarded astronaut wings to anyone achieving an altitude of 50 miles (80 km), while the FAI set the limit of space at 100 kilometers (62.1 mi).
MW 18014 was a German A-4 test rocket [nb 1] launched on 20 June 1944, [1] [2] [3] at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde.It was the first human-made object to reach outer space, attaining an apogee of 176 kilometres (109 mi), well above the Kármán line that was established later as the lowest altitude of space. [4]