Joe Engle
American - (NASA)
Deceased
Date of Birth: Aug. 26, 1932
Date of Death: July 10, 2024
Joe Henry Engle was an American pilot who served in the United States Air Force, test pilot for the North American X-15 program, aeronautical engineer, and a NASA astronaut. Engle test-flew the joint NASA-Air Force X-15 rocket airplane. During the course of testing, Engle earned his USAF Astronaut Wings, a Distinguished Flying Cross and other awards. Engle was selected by NASA in 1966 for the Apollo program, and was originally scheduled to land on the Moon as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17, but was bumped when later flights were cancelled, so that geologist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt could fly. He subsequently became one of the first astronauts in the Space Shuttle program, having flight tested the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1977. He was Commander of the second orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981.
X-15 | Flight 138
North American Aviation | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 29, 1965, 6:21 p.m.
X-15 | Flight 143
North American Aviation | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 10, 1965, 7:24 p.m.
X-15 | Flight 153
North American Aviation | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Oct. 14, 1965, 8:47 p.m.
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-2
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 12, 1981, 3:10 p.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-I
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 27, 1985, 10:58 a.m.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
New Shepard
NS-33
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USANS-33 is the 13th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 33rd in its history.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 15-7
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
H-IIA
GOSAT-GW (Ibuki GW)
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1 - Tanegashima Space Center, JapanGOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Greenhouse gases and Water cycle), also known as Ibuki GW and formerly known as GOSAT 3, is JAXA's nex…
Electron
Symphony In The Stars
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand'Symphony In The Stars' is the first of two dedicated missions on Electron to deploy a single spacecraft to a 650km circular Earth orbit for a confid…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 10-34
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
