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Birth Name: Joseph Henry Engle
Age: 91, born 26 August 1932
Country of origin: 
United States
Currently Residing In: United States
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Mary Catherine Lawrence
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Joe Engle (Maj Gen, USAF, Ret.), is an American pilot, aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was the commander of two Space Shuttle missions including STS-2, the program's second orbital flight. He also participated in the Shuttle program's Approach and Landing Tests. Engle is one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. As an X-15 pilot, Engle made three flights above 50 miles, thus qualifying for astronaut wings under the American convention for the boundary of space. In 1966 he was selected for NASA's fifth Astronaut Group, joining
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