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[b]Space Cover #338: Engle Goes For Three[/b] Fifty years ago this week, Joe Engle performed his third astronaut-wings flight in the X-15, all three occurring in a record setting 3-1/2 month period. The top cover is machine canceled at Edwards, CA on June 29, 1965 when Engle made his first astronaut wings flight. The cover carries a Boy Scout Cachet. Engle reached 280,600 feet altitude (53 miles) on this mission to evaluate piloted re-entry techniques from space using a winged vehicle. After landing from his first spaceflight, Engle took a little dig at the (then) current splashdowns for Mercury and Gemini – Engle: "OK you can call the carryall [van]. I can get out of the capsule here." To which NASA replied: "Rog, we don't want you to get seasick after that!"* Engle did it again on August 10, 1965 as commemorated on the middle Boy Scout cacheted cover also machine canceled at Edwards, CA. Engle battled a continually misbehaving yaw damper but still reached 271,000 feet altitude (51 miles). Finally on October 14, 1965 Engle made his third astronaut wings flight, and final X-15 flight as commemorated on the lower, Zaso cacheted cover, reaching 266,500 feet (just over 50 miles) altitude. Even though this was his last X-15 flight, all of you already know that Engle went on to become a NASA astronaut, coming close to walking on the moon, commanding two ALT flights of the Shuttle Enterprise, and commanding two orbital Shuttle flights. He remains one of the nicest, most approachable ex-astronauts ever in the corps... * Quoted from "The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space," Michelle Evans, 2013, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2840-5. If you don't have a copy of this book, you NEED one!
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T O P I C R E V I E WmicropoozSpace Cover of the Week, Week 338 (October 11, 2015) Space Cover #338: Engle Goes For ThreeFifty years ago this week, Joe Engle performed his third astronaut-wings flight in the X-15, all three occurring in a record setting 3-1/2 month period.The top cover is machine canceled at Edwards, CA on June 29, 1965 when Engle made his first astronaut wings flight. The cover carries a Boy Scout Cachet. Engle reached 280,600 feet altitude (53 miles) on this mission to evaluate piloted re-entry techniques from space using a winged vehicle. After landing from his first spaceflight, Engle took a little dig at the (then) current splashdowns for Mercury and Gemini – Engle: "OK you can call the carryall [van]. I can get out of the capsule here." To which NASA replied: "Rog, we don't want you to get seasick after that!"*Engle did it again on August 10, 1965 as commemorated on the middle Boy Scout cacheted cover also machine canceled at Edwards, CA. Engle battled a continually misbehaving yaw damper but still reached 271,000 feet altitude (51 miles).Finally on October 14, 1965 Engle made his third astronaut wings flight, and final X-15 flight as commemorated on the lower, Zaso cacheted cover, reaching 266,500 feet (just over 50 miles) altitude.Even though this was his last X-15 flight, all of you already know that Engle went on to become a NASA astronaut, coming close to walking on the moon, commanding two ALT flights of the Shuttle Enterprise, and commanding two orbital Shuttle flights. He remains one of the nicest, most approachable ex-astronauts ever in the corps...* Quoted from "The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space," Michelle Evans, 2013, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2840-5. If you don't have a copy of this book, you NEED one!albatronAnd he just recently sat in the cockpit of the X-15 at the National Museum of the Air Force, just before they towed it into its new hangar. micropoozWow, Al, that would have been neat to see! I wonder if anyone got any pics of Joe sitting in the cockpit...Robert PearlmanAlso see the video posted here. Retired NASA astronaut and the only surviving X-15 pilot, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Joe Engle sat in the X-15 cockpit one more time. The X-15 became the first aircraft to be moved into the fourth building on Oct. 2, 2015, where it will be part of the expanded Space Gallery. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)micropoozOutstanding! Thanks Robert!
Space Cover #338: Engle Goes For ThreeFifty years ago this week, Joe Engle performed his third astronaut-wings flight in the X-15, all three occurring in a record setting 3-1/2 month period.The top cover is machine canceled at Edwards, CA on June 29, 1965 when Engle made his first astronaut wings flight. The cover carries a Boy Scout Cachet. Engle reached 280,600 feet altitude (53 miles) on this mission to evaluate piloted re-entry techniques from space using a winged vehicle. After landing from his first spaceflight, Engle took a little dig at the (then) current splashdowns for Mercury and Gemini – Engle: "OK you can call the carryall [van]. I can get out of the capsule here." To which NASA replied: "Rog, we don't want you to get seasick after that!"*Engle did it again on August 10, 1965 as commemorated on the middle Boy Scout cacheted cover also machine canceled at Edwards, CA. Engle battled a continually misbehaving yaw damper but still reached 271,000 feet altitude (51 miles).Finally on October 14, 1965 Engle made his third astronaut wings flight, and final X-15 flight as commemorated on the lower, Zaso cacheted cover, reaching 266,500 feet (just over 50 miles) altitude.Even though this was his last X-15 flight, all of you already know that Engle went on to become a NASA astronaut, coming close to walking on the moon, commanding two ALT flights of the Shuttle Enterprise, and commanding two orbital Shuttle flights. He remains one of the nicest, most approachable ex-astronauts ever in the corps...* Quoted from "The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space," Michelle Evans, 2013, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2840-5. If you don't have a copy of this book, you NEED one!
Fifty years ago this week, Joe Engle performed his third astronaut-wings flight in the X-15, all three occurring in a record setting 3-1/2 month period.
The top cover is machine canceled at Edwards, CA on June 29, 1965 when Engle made his first astronaut wings flight. The cover carries a Boy Scout Cachet. Engle reached 280,600 feet altitude (53 miles) on this mission to evaluate piloted re-entry techniques from space using a winged vehicle. After landing from his first spaceflight, Engle took a little dig at the (then) current splashdowns for Mercury and Gemini – Engle: "OK you can call the carryall [van]. I can get out of the capsule here." To which NASA replied: "Rog, we don't want you to get seasick after that!"*
Engle did it again on August 10, 1965 as commemorated on the middle Boy Scout cacheted cover also machine canceled at Edwards, CA. Engle battled a continually misbehaving yaw damper but still reached 271,000 feet altitude (51 miles).
Finally on October 14, 1965 Engle made his third astronaut wings flight, and final X-15 flight as commemorated on the lower, Zaso cacheted cover, reaching 266,500 feet (just over 50 miles) altitude.
Even though this was his last X-15 flight, all of you already know that Engle went on to become a NASA astronaut, coming close to walking on the moon, commanding two ALT flights of the Shuttle Enterprise, and commanding two orbital Shuttle flights. He remains one of the nicest, most approachable ex-astronauts ever in the corps...
* Quoted from "The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space," Michelle Evans, 2013, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2840-5. If you don't have a copy of this book, you NEED one!
Retired NASA astronaut and the only surviving X-15 pilot, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Joe Engle sat in the X-15 cockpit one more time. The X-15 became the first aircraft to be moved into the fourth building on Oct. 2, 2015, where it will be part of the expanded Space Gallery. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)
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