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

It carried a chimpanzee named Ham on a seven hundred kilometer flight over the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Astronauts on the next flight, Gemini Five, suffered a number of technical problems.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

VOA: special.2009.06.10

A flight attendant became an overnight folk hero on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

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

VOA: special.2009.06.17

But Steven Slater is in a lot of legal trouble and details of exactly what happened on that JetBlue flight and how he acted are still up in the air.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

In 1996 Canadian professor David Irvine-Halliday was on a work trip in Nepal when his return flight was canceled.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human to step on the Moon, observed the extraordinary accomplishment of the Apollo 11 mission forever established a lasting legacy in space flight.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit say just as the plane was getting ready to land there was a loud pop, and then panic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Also on board is a new exercise machine, which is part of ongoing studies into the effects of long-term space flight on muscle and bone loss in astronauts.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

On Saturday,President Obama said an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently trained and equipped the Nigerian man accused in the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Afriqiyah said its crewmembers were Libyan. Officials in South Africa reported most aboard the flight had planned to make a connection in Tripoli and fly on to various destinations in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

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

The most recent threat nearly got away. The 30-year-old Pakistani American was on board this flight, bound for Dubai when pilots heard this from Air Traffic Control: Federal agents stopped the flight and removed Shahzad, who managed to board the airplane despite being placed on a "no-fly" list hours before.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06