Chapman is a city in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,377.
Business District in Chapman (2014)
Heavy tornado damage at Chapman High School on June 12, 2008 (NWS Topeka)
EF4 damage to a well-constructed brick home near Chapman with destroyed farm machinery in the background.
Joe Henry Engle is an American pilot, aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was the commander of two Space Shuttle missions including STS-2 in 1981, the program's second orbital flight. He also flew two flights in the Shuttle program's 1977 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, and the last surviving test pilot of the aircraft. After Richard H. Truly died in 2024, Engle is now the last surviving crew member of STS-2.
Engle in 1971
Engle with the X-15A-2 aircraft in 1965
ARPS Class III graduates. Front row: Ed Givens, Tommie Benefield, Charlie Bassett, Greg Neubeck and Mike Collins. Back row: Al Atwell, Neil Garland, Jim Roman, Al Uhalt and Engle.
Engle, commander of the STS-2 mission, with Truly, pilot
