The fifteen-minute flight ended with a soft splash into the ocean about five hundred kilometers from Cape Canaveral.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

And NASA is also being called on to develop new technologies to solve problems involved in long-term space flight for humans and robots.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

She wrote about their flight in a single-engine airplane over Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

They were more than two-thirds of the way to the moon on a flight path that would take them to a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Instead, he and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles and their three flight attendants prepared for a water landing.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

One of them,the Apollo-11, traveled to the moon just seven months after the last X-15 flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The X-15 was the first major investment by the United States in manned space flight technology.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

A non-stop flight around the world without re-fueling was the last flight record to be set.

VOA: special.2010.10.06

Since the emergency landing of flight fifteen forty-nine, special radars have received a lot of attention.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

All two hundred twenty-eight people on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris were killed.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

And in nineteen ninety-eight, at age seventy-seven, he returned to space in an historic flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The agency carried out a test flight of its next-generation launch vehicle for astronauts.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

By November,nineteen sixty-seven, the moon launch rocket,Saturn Five, was ready for a test flight.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Five hours after the explosion, flight controllers advised firing the rocket for thirty-five seconds.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

It was used in nineteen sixty-one during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Alan Shepard made only a fifteen-minute flight in the little one-man Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

He would be launched early in May,nineteen sixty-one, on a short,fifteen minute flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The final test flight was made at the end of January, nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The astronauts had planned to re-open the door during their four-day flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

He would circle the Earth three times during a five-hour Mercury flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The final test flight was made at the end of January,nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Then the X-15 pushes over the top of its flight path.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

A chimpanzee named Enos was launched on a three-orbit flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Wiley Post made his famous flight in July, nineteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

The objects might have belonged to the two-person flight team.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

His space flight lasted one hour and forty-eight minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Everything was "A-OK" for an orbital flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It was his seventh X-15 flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07