The successful flight of Apollo Seven led NASA officials to send the next flight, Apollo Eight,to the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

So an astronaut on the flight of Gemini Four, Ed White,took that first frightening step into the unknown.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

So astronauts Tom Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan did that during the flight of Apollo Ten.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

She read about the first flight of the Wright Brothers and the first American female pilot,Harriet Quimby.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

Today we continue the history of the American space program with the flight of Apollo Thirteen, the flight that almost did not return home.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Today we continue our history of the American space program with the flight of Apollo Eleven.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

A painter's colors can show the drying of dreams or the flight of the human spirit.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

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

VOA: special.2009.12.30

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

VOA: special.2010.02.28

The first manned flight of project Mercury was a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

And we hear about the test flight of NASA's newest rocket.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

It was the first manned flight of project Mercury.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

NASA postponed the flight of Gemini Six.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Gemini's flight director decided to reduce the use of power on the spacecraft, instead of ending the flight early.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

He fled with his mother on the last public flight out of the country before the overthrow of the government.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

At the end of the test flight,the speed of the Apollo spacecraft was increased to forty thousand kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

"Obviously there are a lot of people that are unhappy about the potential of altering the future of space flight."

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Before the flight went down, sensors gave conflicting information on air speed to the plane's computers, possibly because of ice.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The results of the two short flights made space officials believe the Mercury program was ready for its first orbital flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Tens of thousands of birds stop in the Cape May area on their flight south for the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.01