21.   In its report, the committee encouraged NASA to begin engineering studies and flight tests of larger, faster roving vehicles for use on the Mars surface.

22.   It failed its final flight tests and the Defense Department canceled the program.

23.   It was during the flight test of a new manual docking system last June that Progress collided with Mir in a near disaster.

24.   Its development is proving unusually hard, even after Pentagon officials cut the number of decoys in flight tests from nine to one.

25.   More flight tests have been added, the report said, but they may not be enough.

26.   Much of the excursion will be dedicated to a flight test of the back mounted jet pack worn by all spacewalking astronauts assigned to station assembly work.

27.   North Korea has halted flight tests as part of an understanding with Washington, but has not previously suggested that it might stop making missiles.

28.   Recent wind-tunnel tests of the idea were a smashing success, says Hunter, who plans flight tests in about four years.

29.   Several news organizations in Southern California have received faxes, apparently from disgruntled male aviators, raising questions about her flight tests.

30.   Six of those are based at Boeing Field in Seattle and are taking part in flight tests.