flight

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Rick Henfling, flight director for the Artemis II mission, stressed Tuesday that "the toilet remains operational. The challenge that we're working through is evacuating the wastewater tank," he said.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Whittaker caught a flight to L.A. and was at the senator’s hospital bedside when he died and then served as a pallbearer at the funeral.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Steven Lyons was escorted onto a flight in Jakarta on Tuesday by officers from Spain's Guardia Civil.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

She said she was taking Dramamine to get through the flight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The computers controlling the Friendship 7 flight had been programmed with an incalculable number of equations that would control the capsule’s trajectory from the time it lifted off at Cape Canaveral until it splashed down.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson