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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, the only astronaut to pilot both an X-15 aircraft and a space shuttle, died in Houston on Wednesday, July 10. Engle was 91 years old. NASA announced the passing of retired U.S. Air ...