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

VOA: special.2011.06.12

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

VOA: special.2011.04.14

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

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

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

"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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Radio,television and newspaper reporters made it possible for millions of people to share the excitement of the flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Visitors to Mars Day crowded around a piece of the meteorite in the huge Milestones of Flight Gallery.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

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

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

VOA: special.2009.07.08

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

They were barred from leaving their rooms because someone on their flight was suspected of having the flu.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

It became very popular. One critic said it described the poetry of flight as no other book on flying had ever done.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

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

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Their purpose was to explore some of the problems of manned flight, during short periods,in lower space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

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

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

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

To learn how this is done, researchers first observe the normal flight paths of the insects.

VOA: special.2010.04.27