When asked by a reporter why he’d made such a foolhardy flight, Walters was ready with a pithy reply: “A man can’t just sit around.”

当Walters被一名记者问及为什么进行这次莽撞的飞行时，他胸有成竹，回答得十分精炼：“人不能无所事事。”

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Twenty-three days after Gagarin's flight, on May 5, 1961, American Alan Shepard became the second man in space.

1961年5月5号，Gagarin飞行之后第23天，美国人Alan Shepard成为第二位进入太空的人类成员。

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On one flight, a young man was trying to chat up a woman sitting next to him and bought her too many drinks.

一次飞行中，一个年轻人试图和坐在旁边的女人聊天，给她买了太多酒。

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

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Alan Shepard made only a fifteen-minute flight in the little one-man Mercury spacecraft.

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Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of bombing Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,Scotland, posted the 353-pages of legal arguments on the Internet Friday.

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In 1907, the first helicopter to achieve free flight carrying a man rose six feet (two meters) above the ground at Lisieux, France.

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"You can't give it to her, " the flight attendant told the man.

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Yet with careful rationing of its stored energy, it should be possible to achieve the closest thing yet to perpetual manned flight with man being the limiting factor because of the need to carry food and drink, and to remain awake for long periods.

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