The Last Rocket Pilot

Joe Engle flew everything from Super Sabres to the Space Shuttle, but it is as an X-15 pilot that he is perhaps best known.  The last human footprints on the moon were left by Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt in December 1972. Had things worked out as originally planned, however, those last prints …

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