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[Deleted member 5399]

Astronaut Joe Engle piloted the fastest manually controlled flight of the Space Shuttle, in the atmosphere during atmospheric reentry back in 1981; where he was said to reach close to the 17,500mph listed as the record.

 

[Agent_L]

I think it was the only manual landing of Space Shuttle at all : )

 

[Xilikon]

Things surely are getting frisky in the cockpit.