On March 26, 2006, the Queen of the North was located by a manned submersible craft at a depth of 427 metres.

To date, only one company has created a manned craft that has crossed the barrier into outer space.

The country he left out is Japan itself, which, despite its reservoir of talent, has never built a manned craft.

But building a manned craft that can quickly glide in and out of low orbits has proved incredibly daunting.

It's madness to put a solid fuel booster on a manned craft.

Yet the New Morality claimed that the scientists had sent a manned craft into Jupiter's swirling clouds.

Langley had first made tests with his manned heavier-than-air craft, launched from a houseboat catapult, in 1903.

This was not a manned craft.

Most of the jumps were no more than a few hundred light years, but the last one was 140,000-supposedly the longest collapsar jump ever made by a manned craft.

Beginning in perhaps 2005, cargo ships carrying equipment, fuel and supplies would precede manned craft to Martian orbit.