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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Kansas native who commanded two Space Shuttle missions has passed away. The Kansas Cosmosphere shared the news that Joe Engle died Wednesday, July 10.

July 11 (UPI) --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. Engel was a U.S. Air ...

Joe Engle, who has died aged 91, was an American astronaut who was scheduled to land on the Moon in 1972 on the Apollo 17 mission. Widely regarded by his colleagues as one of the best pilots of ...

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 ...