spaceflight

noun

space·flight ˈspās-ˌflīt

: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere

Examples of spaceflight in a Sentence

a history of human spaceflight

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But the Polaris Dawn mission — a five-day journey to orbit carried out by the private sector rather than NASA — sought to take that research further, hoping to unravel some of the most troublesome aspects of spaceflight. —

Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024 Completing the spacewalk was a milestone in the history of human spaceflight. —

Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024 The crew of Polaris Dawn, therefore, assumed non-trivial dangers in undertaking this spaceflight. —

Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2024 Conceived in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and launched atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets on Tuesday, Isaacman’s five-day Polaris Dawn mission is the first of three journeys that have been planned to advance the state of the art in human spaceflight. —

Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spaceflight