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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronaut, adventurer and aviator extraordinaire Joe Henry Engle, who passed away on July 10 at 91, earned renown in his career as one of only two X-15 pilots to reach space three times.

Astronaut, X-15 test pilot and space shuttle pilot Joe Engle has died at home in Houston, Texas. He was 91. Engle passed peacefully surrounded by his family according to a NASA press release.

The Kansas Cosmosphere shared the news that Joe Engle died Wednesday, July 10. He was 91 years old. Engle was born in Chapman, Kan. He earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the ...