How to Use spaceflight in a Sentence

spaceflight

noun
  • This is the first spaceflight for Dominick, Epps and Grebenkin.
    Russell Lewis, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But that wasn’t the end of spaceflight for the Wright brothers’ invention.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The launch marked the first human spaceflight mission to take off from Space Launch Complex-40.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • While that spaceflight had a research focus, the Thursday launch will flaunt tourists for the first time.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The mission was to be Starship's first human spaceflight to launch from Earth, fly around the Moon, and come back.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
  • Human spaceflight gives us eyes on the grounds, hands on the ground, everything else.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • SpaceX was about to set a commercial spaceflight record.
    David W. Brown, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And so Kikina's spaceflight on Wednesday is both the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
  • But at its core lies the spaceflight equivalent of a bloodhound’s nose.
    science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The crew also met the men and women charged with preparing the Orion for spaceflight.
    USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Koch also holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days.
    USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • How to watch the launch Virgin Galactic will offer a livestream of the spaceflight on its website, virgingalactic.com.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • Alan Shepard flew on Freedom 7 at the dawn of human spaceflight.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • This will be Endurance’s third spaceflight after having been used on the Crew-3 and Crew-5 missions.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • In the months leading up to the spaceflight, the astronaut crafted an initial small batch of bracelets with her girlfriends.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
  • As with any aspect of spaceflight, skip entry is not without its risks.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • This will be Endurance’s third spaceflight after having been used on the Crew-3 and Crew-5 missions.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Isaacman, the spaceflight’s sponsor, allowed Hippchen to pick a stand-in.
    Marcia Dunn, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Following the launch, SpaceX will fly two human spaceflight missions to the space station.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
  • But the time has come to vacate the driver’s seat and move over to the passenger’s side in the American human spaceflight journey.
    Charles Beames, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Also like the Biofinder, the OrganiCam is not yet spaceflight-ready.
    Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 27 July 2022
  • Most of the rest are common in spaceflight, such as the presence of only one set of fuel tanks and one high gain antenna.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2022
  • But for missions to the Moon and Mars, more information about the longer-term effects of spaceflight on the human body is needed.
    Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Starship could someday be the 737 of human spaceflight.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 July 2022
  • The technology could even work for long-haul spaceflight in the future, like Mars missions.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2022
  • Even the most banal calculations can make or break you in spaceflight.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
  • For pretty much the entire history of spaceflight, humans have tried to brute force things.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
  • If that happens, the astronauts will spend eight months or more in orbit, and things can go wrong during spaceflight.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Vande Hei spent 355 days in space, setting a record for the longest single spaceflight for an American.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Commercial spaceflight was always going to introduce new shades of risk to leaving Earth.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024

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