From the  UA/MGM  Movie 

"X-15" 

SHEET music for 

NACA (predecessor to NASA space program) space craft aircraft airplane

"CONCERTO FOR THE X-15"

(1st film role for MARY TYLER MOORE!)

Music:  CARL PRIOR & EURO TESTI

from WIKIPEDIA:

X-15 was released 1961. Inspired by the experimental X-15, the first piloted aircraft to achieve hypersonic flight, as well as the first to achieve flight above the stratosphere.  The X-15 was only one in a long series of X-planes.

The film was a dramatization of the rocket plane's development program, which was among the very earliest NASA programs; inherited from 

NACA (the predecessor of NASA - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). The plot line was an imaginary story depicted around real events.

X-15 starred Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler Moore (her first film role).

PLOT 

The experimental North American X-15 program at Edwards Air Force Base involves test pilots: civilian Matt Powell, Lt. Col. Lee Brandon, and Maj. Ernest Wilde. The cutting edge high-speed program is ramrodded by project chief Tom Deparma and US Air Force Col. Craig Brewster. As the test pilots prepare for the planned launch of the rocket-powered aircraft from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress mother ship, they experience emotional and physical problems, which they share with their wives and sweethearts.

Test after test results in setbacks, including a near disaster when an engine explodes during a ground test and engulfs the X-15 and its pilot in flames, but finally the X-15 begins to set records in speed and altitude for a piloted aircraft. When the X-15 "flames out" on a high altitude run, after guiding the X-15 to a safe landing, saving Powell's life, Lt. Col. Brandon, flying a chase aircraft, is killed in a crash. Powell himself takes the X-15 into outer space for the final test.

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