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Topic: Happy Birthday, astronaut Joe Engle (8/26)
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Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 338
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 08-26-2012 02:38 AM
  
Astronaut Joe Engle celebrates his 80th birthday today. Gen. Engle first flew into space in 1965 piloting the X-15 aircraft. He was then selected as an astronaut in 1966 and commanded shuttle flights STS-2 in 1981 and STS-51-I in 1985.Happy birthday Gen. Engle may you have many more! |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1461
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 08-26-2012 12:12 PM
Best damn pilot of hypersonic falling bricks you ever saw! As someone who was willing to take bad assignments (e.g., 2TV-1) and suffer disappointments (losing his slot on Apollo 17) to do whatever was needed for The Program, he was and continues to be a very Classy Guy. |
randy
Member Posts: 1258
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-26-2012 03:33 PM
Happy Birthday, Gen. Engle. |
Kite
Member Posts: 220
From: Northampton UK
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 08-26-2012 03:48 PM
A very happy 8oth birthday to Gen. Joe Engle and wishing you many more. Another dignified astronaut. |
Lunar_module_5
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posted 08-26-2012 04:25 PM
Happy Birthday Gen. Engle. You made a 16 year old space nut very happy in 1982 when you sent me a signed photo after your STS-2 mission. A 30 years on belated thank you. The photo still takes pride of place in my collection. |
Jerry Brouillette
Member Posts: 101
From: Louviers, CO USA
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 08-26-2012 04:26 PM
Happy Birthday Sir, you have a lot of admirers out here. Thanks for the history!! |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1330
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 08-27-2012 09:43 AM
Happy Belated Birthday Gen. Engle. My favorite astronaut of the bunch. I truly respect his character. I wish I was more like him. |
PowerCat
Member Posts: 148
From: Herington, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 08-29-2012 05:29 AM
Best wishes to the General on his 80th birthday. Living only 30 miles from Gen. Engle's hometown of Chapman, KS, I have had the pleasure of meeting him on two occasions at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. He is a great individual and a great hero, not only for the State of Kansas, but also as an American. While I wish he would haved gotten to walk on the moon on Apollo 17, I have never heard him complain of his bump from that crew. It was fun the last time I saw him with Harrison Schmitt in Hutchinson and how they had fun joking back and forth about that mission.Thanks Gen. Engle for al you do for the space program. I love his white scarf story... |
leslie
Member Posts: 208
From: Surrey, England
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 08-29-2012 06:02 AM
Joe Engle is just the nicest and most polite astronaut I ever met!.He is a true gentleman... happy birthday indeed!------------------
Leslie Cantwell |
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