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As the commandant of ARPS, he seized the opportunity to test the NF-104 as if it had his name on it. Pilots were already beginning to crunch the F-104 simply because the engine flamed out and they fell to the ground with about as much glide as a set of car keys. The F-104 had been built as a high-speed interceptor, and when you tried to do other things with it, it became very вЂњunforgiving,вЂќ as the expression went. Just how it would handle in the weak molecular structure of the atmosphere above 100,000 feet, what the limits of its performance envelope would be, nobody knew. The only problem was, nobody had ever wrung out the NF-104. During this interval they could master the use of reaction controls, which were hydrogen-peroxide thrusters of the sort used in all vehicles above 100,000 feet, whether the X-15, the Mercury capsule, or the X-20. The plan was that the ARPS students would run profiles on the space mission simulator, then put on silver pressure suits, space-flight style, and take the NF-104 up to 120,000 feet or more in a tremendous arc, affording up to two minutes of weightlessness. At least that was what the engineers confidently assumed.

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The main engine plus the regular afterburner would take you to about 60,000 feet, and when you cut in the rocket, and that would take you somewhere between 120,000 and 140,000 feet. The rocket engine used hydrogen peroxide and JP4 fuel and would deliver 6.000 pounds of thrust. The other was the NF-104, which was an F-104 with a rocket engine mounted over the tailpipe.

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One was a space mission simulator, a device more realistic and sophisticated than the Mercury project simulator NASA had on the boards. Two extraordinary pieces of equipment were being developed specifically for ARPS. The third NF-104A (USAF 56-0762) was delivered to the USAF on 1 November 1963, and was destroyed in a crash while being piloted by Chuck Yeager on 10 December 1963.ДЄs excerpted from Tom WolfeвЂ™s The Right Stuff: The Lockheed NF-104A was an American mixed power, high-performance, supersonic aerospace trainer that served as a low-cost astronaut training vehicle for the X-15 and projected X-20 Dyna-Soar programs.

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