There's a saying that dates back to the first years of atmospheric flight.

The ability to enter a planet's atmosphere (atmospheric flight) and to interact with its surface is mentioned as one of the future development plans.

The battlesuit is capable of both atmospheric flight and interstellar travel.

It is even possible you have developed the earliest forms of radio communication and atmospheric flight.

But it was not designed to sustain atmospheric flight.

Was any record made at the time of atmospheric flights or spatial approaches?

Within seconds, the rough buffeting of atmospheric flight shook the bridge.

The situation then is completely different - as indeed it is in ordinary atmospheric flight.

A quick scan of the controls confirmed that the ship was for atmospheric flight only.

It appears to be designed for both space and atmospheric flight.