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Flying The X-15 And Space Shuttle, Joe H. Engle
Flying The X-15 And Space Shuttle, Joe H. Engle
ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program
Hear what it was like for Joe H. Engle, USAF/ANG, Ret. to fly both the X-15 and the Space Shuttle. In 1965 Capt. Engle flew the X-15 to 280,600 feet, to become the youngest pilot to qualify as an astronaut and would go on to fly it 15 more times. Selected for NASA space missions, he flew the Space Shuttle “Enterprise” off the top of a modified 747 on glide flight tests. He commanded the orbital test flight of “Columbia” and became the first and only pilot to manually fly an aerospace vehicle from Mach 25 to landing. A remarkable …
Trends. The Cassini Mission To Saturn: Plutonium As Propaganda, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Cassini Mission To Saturn: Plutonium As Propaganda, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the plutonium-carrying Cassini mission to Saturn.