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.

The career of Joe Engle included five visits to space, and operation of two different winged vehicles: the shuttle and the X-15.

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 ...

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.

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, Trailblazer as Test Pilot and an Astronaut, Dies at 91 He was the first to touch the edge of space and later to go beyond it in two different aircraft, an X-15 and a shuttle.

Within the annals of space exploration, Joe Engle was hailed as the first person to reach beyond the atmosphere aboard two different winged craft.