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 ...

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On August 22, 1963, Joe Walker took the X-15 aloft for what was supposed to be another controlled high-altitude test. Instead, a little extra thrust sent the rocket plane far beyond its intended ...

The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission labeled Flight 90, a routine test profile slipped just far enough out of ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...

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 passed ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the last five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...