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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.17

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

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During the flight, they separated the lunar lander from the command module and flew it for eight hours.

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The flight tested the worldwide communications system that linked the spacecraft to flight controllers at Cape Canaveral.

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The flight tested the heat shield. The shield protected the spacecraft from the great heat produced when it returned through the Earth's atmosphere.

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

VOA: special.2009.07.08

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

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

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Once the flight landed in New York he deployed the emergency slide and left the plane.

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He had guided the flight. Both men knew they had made the flight as a team.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

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

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

VOA: special.2009.07.15

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

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It happened so early in the flight, at a level of about 900 meters, that the crew had little time to decide what to do.

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

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

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

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