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.

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 -- 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, who commanded two Space Shuttle missions, died Wednesday at the age of 91. Skip to content. ... The Kansas Cosmosphere shared the news that Joe Engle died Wednesday, July 10.

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 ...