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Ever breaking new boundaries at the limits of manned flight in the 1960s, Test Pilots became the first official astronauts flying the X-15 test craft from Edwards AFB, California to the upper boundaries of the atmosphere and to the edge of space. Here a rocket-propelled X-15 leaves concentric shockwaves as it roars at several times the speed of sound up toward the heavens.

Stu Shepherd has been an aviation illustrator for nearly twenty years. His work is mostly known by box cover art on aircraft model kits made by Revell and Monogram, for whom he has done over 300 images (now including car box art and Star Wars items too). Stu has also worked in the Computer Game and Internet Community industries. He also creates art in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Genres, with his strength in spaceship design and environments. Stu just completed his first novel Sci-fi, and will soon complete his second. He lives in Central California.