manned flight

If that happens, birdlike manned flight will have come full circle in a bit more than a century.

Although Project Firefly is still grounded, Hartman expects manned flight tests to begin soon.

The first manned flight mission just aimed at the safe launch and return of the spaceship and her crew.

Of course, the actual SR-71 Blackbird had transformed manned flight long before special-effects animators saw its potential.

The Wright brothers were not the first to fly, but they are still regarded as the fathers of manned flight.

The first launch will take place as soon as the facility is completed in 2015, with its first manned flight slated for 2018.

This plan is merely designed to realize China's dream of first manned flight into outer space.

In 2003, China became the third country to send a manned flight into space, following Russia and the United States.

When President Kennedy proposed going to the moon, America had just 15 minutes of manned flight experience in space.

Thereafter, the impetus for manned flight was lost.

China's first manned spaceflight was in 2003. A second, two-manned flight followed in 2005.

China launched its first manned flight into low-Earth orbit in 2003; and two more followed, with the most recent one in 2008.

Its bold engineer, Thomas Senkel, took the machine on its first manned flight this week - lasting 1 minute 30 seconds.

launched its first manned flight