Delamar Lake Landing Strip, established in 1943, was designated as an emergency landing site for the X-15.
On 8 June 2004, a monument was erected at the cockpit's locale, near Randsburg, California.
Named after the USAF/USN North American X-15 from the X-plane series of 1960's experimental aircraft.
North American X-15, an American experimental hypersonic research aircraft
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It developed partial pressure suits for NASA's Bell X-1 rocket-powered research aircraft in the 1940s, and full pressure suits for the D558-2 and North American X-15 research aircraft in the 1950s.
It recites and publishes photographs of early aircraft, such as the Bell X-1, the X-15, and lifting body studies before going into a discussion of the Shuttle.
Bell also developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft, the North American X-15 and the Bell Rocket Belt.