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WHAT'S NEW You can't openly monkey with the Superman mythology--there are probably federal laws against it-so to reinvent him director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, the X-Men movies) went subtle, quietly tweaking canonical story lines to roil Supe's placid emotional waters. When the movie opens, Big Blue has been gone for five years, and he gets back to find that Lois Lane has a new guy (!) and a kid (!!). Now, wouldn't that ruffle your spit curl...
...speed (450 knots), asked Scott Crossfield on the intercom if he was set. The reply: "I'm ready when you are, buddy." Bock went through a five-second countdown, then punched a red button on his control panel. With a metallic click a locking device opened, and the X-15 dropped silently on a long, fast, powerless glide toward the desert floor...
...X-15 hurtled toward the dry bed of Rogers Lake, a natural twelve-mile-long runway. Air Force and North American officials crowded anxiously around loudspeakers relaying Crossfield's radio messages. At 14,000 ft., Scott Crossfield, a World War II Navy pilot and a test pilot for a decade, remarked laconically: "I wish I could do a roll on my way in." (Later he explained that he had restrained himself because "if I'd goofed, it would have looked kind of sour.") Testing his controls with a wide, lazy-S turn, Crossfield, following procedure, jettisoned the X...
From the time it had taken off under the wing of the B-52, the X-15 had been in the air 38 minutes. Its first powerless flight had lasted only five minutes and ten seconds. But in that fleeting moment of history, man had moved closer to space...
...PeiPei X. Zhang ’08, a Cabot House resident, said she spotted the intruder early last Saturday...