Re: How do you do that, Dragonlord?
Winged creatures, no. Wings need some sort of medium (gas or liquid) to push against. However, you could equip your species with biological "rockets" instead. For a RL example, look up Bombadier beetles; they use glands in their abdomen to produce two chemicals which, when mixed together, react violently and bLast a jet of boiling-hot acid and steam at whatever's annoying them. Your insectoids could use rocket assists for jumping and changing course in mid-leap, which is as close as you can get to "flying" in a vaccum.
Note that this kind of thing would be biologically "expensive," and so probably couldn't be done for long continuous stretches of time. They'd be rocket-powered grasshoppers rather than eagles.
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