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Today would have been this inverted aviator's 95th birthday.Thankfully, he survived the flight and went on to take one small step...In 1962, Test pilot Neil Armstrong was testing a self-adjusting control system on the hypersonic experimental rocket plane called the X-15. Utilizing the incredible performance of his X-15, and its climb rate of over 60,000 feet per minute, Armstrong managed to reach an altitude of over 207,000 feet above the surface of our planet, but unfortunately for poor Neil, during the test flight descent, the X-15's nose was held up for too long and the hypersonic rocket plane bounced off the atmosphere like a skipping stonehttps://sierrahotel.net/blogs/news/because-neil-was-inverted