spaceflight

noun

space·​flight ˈspās-ˌflīt 

: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere

Examples of spaceflight in a Sentence

a history of human spaceflight

Recent Examples on the Web

The human question As far as human spaceflight goes, SpaceX has been narrowly focused on retrofitting Starship for a multibillion-dollar NASA contact to ferry government astronauts to the moon amid a space race with China. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026

Actual spaceflight also exposes cells to radiation and other conditions the experiment did not reproduce. — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026

The first RPOs occurred near the dawn of the space age as milestones in human spaceflight. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026

The company wants Starship to be a fully and rapidly reusable transport system that slashes the cost of spaceflight. — Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1931, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for spaceflight

• acolyte
• aconite
• allanite
• alunite
• amberlite
• ammonite
• amorite
• amphitrite
• analyte
• anchorite
• andesite
• anhydrite

Kids Definition

spaceflight

noun

space·​flight ˈspās-ˌflīt 

: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere