Capt. Joe Engle is known as the only person to fly both the X-15 and Space Shuttle, thus being the only person to enter space ...

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 at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Engle in front of the X-15 Research Rocket, 1965 - Smith Collection/Gado Joe Engle, who has died aged 91, was an American ...

Near the end of A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 fantasy novel of adventure and rescue, Mrs. Whatsit, one of the shape-shifting guardian matrons who accompanies the book’s three young ...

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 ...

Joe Engle, a retired Air National Guard Major General and pioneering NASA astronaut who flew both the X-15 and the space shuttle, died at 91. He was the first NASA astronaut to earn his wings by ...

One hundred years ago, when Madeleine L’Engle was born — on Nov. 29, 1918 — no one had heard of the particular rallying cry “she persisted.” L’Engle’s story, however, and that of her masterpiece, “A ...