They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

He had flown on Apollo Eight, the first flight to orbit the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

That kind of x-ray scanner would have located the package that this individual had on the flight to Detroit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

NASA plans to retire the shuttle fleet, bringing US manned space flight to an end, for the forseeable future.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Manzoor Hussain is among the hundreds of passengers who were able to leave on the first Pakistan International Airlines flight to the United Kingdom since Iceland's volcanic eruption last week.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

The 31-year-old claims he was handcuffed and hooded,and put on a so-called rendition flight to Egypt that he and others believe refueled for 30 minutes on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

It was the countdown for Apollo Eleven the space flight that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

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

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

Controllers on the ground joked that the flight had gone so well they did not have enough to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

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

And so begins the first powered flight of the experimental plane designed to take man to the edge of space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

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

VOA: special.2009.07.08

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

Finally,spacecraft commander Armstrong and NASA flight controllers agreed it was time to separate the lander module Eagle from the command module Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland, found the substance glycine in material brought back to Earth from a comet.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

And they had to make this move without the equipment in the command module that kept the spacecraft on its flight path.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

When it was time for him to leave the spacecraft, this is what the world heard: "Roger,Flight,we're GO."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

They needed to change their flight path to take them around the moon and back toward Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

But Richard Branson is not the only one working to make space flight available to the public.

VOA: special.2009.12.18