The fifteen-minute flight ended with a soft splash into the ocean about five hundred kilometers from Cape Canaveral.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

Katherine Cole has more. Call it a crash-landing, a ditching, a splash-down, or a nicer name.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The first flight ended with a soft splash into the ocean,as planned.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

First Lady Michelle Obama has also made a splash on the trip, whether meeting Queen Elizabeth or making an emotional visit to a girl's school in London.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03