Over his distinguished career, Engle flew over 185 different aircraft, including NASA space shuttles HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Joe Engle, who had the distinction of being the only ...

Retired Major General Joe Engle, a pioneering NASA astronaut, passed away at age 91. He was the first NASA astronaut to fly both the X-15 hypersonic rocket plane and the Space Shuttle, achieving ...

NASA’s Joe Acabá has been replaced by Scott Tingle as the head of the Astronaut Office. The former Central Florida educator ...

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 graduated ...

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. But the moon, to his disappointment, proved out of reach. By Richard Sandomir ...

Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space aboard two different winged vehicles, has died at the age of 91. Engle's death on Wednesday (July 10) was announced in a note from his family shared ...

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA has appointed veteran astronaut Joe Acaba as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. A decorated veteran of ...

As NASA nears selecting its first crew to fly to the moon in more than 50 years, the space agency has a new leader for its astronaut corps. Joe Acaba, a former educator who has flown three times to ...

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. He was 91 years old.

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. He was also ...

Acaba is the first person of Hispanic heritage to become chief of NASA's astronaut office. As NASA nears selecting its first crew to fly to the moon in more than 50 years, the space agency has a new ...

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