Mister Branson says he plans to bring his son and daughter and his parents with him on the first flight.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

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

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

VOA: special.2009.07.22

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Less than two months later, James McDivitt and Ed White went into space on the second Gemini flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

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

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

VOA: special.2009.07.01

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.13

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

VOA: special.2009.06.10

People could hear on radio and television the talk between the astronaut and the flight controllers.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

But they were detained because of someone who sat near them on their arriving flight.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Schirra had been the pilot on an almost perfect Mercury flight three years before.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

All of the systems on the Mercury spacecraft sent radio signals to flight controllers.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

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

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Boats quickly came to the rescue of all 155 people on the flight.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

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

VOA: special.2009.06.10

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

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Those were the words from the flight director on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

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