including NASA space shuttles HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Joe Engle, who had the distinction of being the only astronaut to pilot an X-15 aircraft and a space shuttle, died in Houston ...

Joe Henry Engle was born on Aug. 26 ... but they had to return three days early because of a fuel cell failure. (Mr. Truly died in February.) Image Mr. Engle in 1976. By the time he retired ...

Engle became the second human to enter space (but not Earth orbit) on three occasions, behind only fellow X-15 pilot Joe Walker. The first and highest of Engle’s flights was achieved on June 29 ...

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 ...

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. According to ...

Engle is recorded as the sixth person to fly a suborbital flight and 104th to enter orbit. Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space aboard two different winged vehicles, has died at the age ...

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 ...

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’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.