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Joe Engle's Remarkable Career Bridged Gap Between Air and Space, Broke Records. Astronaut, X-15 test pilot and space shuttle pilot Joe Engle has died at home in Houston, Texas. He was 91.
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Kansas astronaut Major General Joe Engle (ret.) has died at the age of 91. According to NASA, Gen. Engle was born on Aug. 26, 1932, in Dickinson County, Kansas, and ...
Engle, who was an Air Force colonel when he left NASA, spent a total of 224 hours in space. Friend of Yeager Joe Henry Engle was born in Abilene, Kan., on Aug. 26, 1932, and raised in nearby Chapman.
Engle qualified for his astronaut wings June 29, 1965, about two months before he turned 33, when as a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force and NASA-run research project, he flew the X-15 fixed-wing ...
Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space on two different winged vehicles, has died at the age of 91. Engle's first flights into space on the X-15 preceded his launching on the space shuttle.
Retired Air National Guard Major General Joe Engle, the first NASA astronaut to fly the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket plane and the space shuttle, died Wednesday. He was 91.
U.S. rocket flying pioneer dies at 91. ... Jul. 11, 2024, 3:59 p.m. Joe Engle, who first flew into space aboard the X-15 rocket plane and later aboard the space shuttle Columbia, pictured here, ...
Joe Engle, who commanded two Space Shuttle missions, ... Astronaut, Kansas native Joe Engle dies at 91. By Melissa Brunner. Published: Jul. 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM CDT TOPEKA ...
Friends, family and former colleagues are mourning the death of retired astronaut Joe Engel, 91, who died in his Houston home on Wednesday, NASA announced.