Joe Engle, the last surviving member of the test pilots who skimmed the edge of space on the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s and who later orbited the Earth on space shuttle missions, died July 10 ...

Joe Engle, who had the distinction of being the only astronaut to pilot an X-15 aircraft and a space shuttle, died in Houston on Wednesday, July 10. He was 91 years old.

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly into space aboard two different winged vehicles and a test pilot for the shuttle program, has died. He was 91.

WASHINGTON -- Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly into space aboard two different winged vehicles and a test pilot for the shuttle program, has died. He was 91. Engle’s death was announced by ...

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.

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.