Definition of spaceflight
: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere
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Mercury 13 Netflix has a new documentary coming up looking at the 13 female pilots who went through spaceflight tests around the same time the first men were planning to go up to space.
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More seriously, though, that exploitation results in things like Spaceport America, built in 2011 as the launch point for Virgin Galactic's still-unrealized plans for commercial spaceflight.
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But the new world of commercial spaceflight has yet to launch a human into space, let alone civilians and leave them there for two weeks.
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Past Meets Future Even with its long legacy in spaceflight, Orbital ATK is now a leaner, more cost-conscious operation.
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And as private companies such as SpaceX and Virgin Orbit continue to step up their spaceflight efforts, the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has to approve their rocket launches.
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There are classics like Scarface and The Iron Giant, and fresh Netflix Original films including Adam Sandler and Chris Rock's The Week Of and a documentary about women who were tested for spaceflight called Mercury 13.
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In its second year without a permanent leader, NASA has been trying to pivot back toward human spaceflight for the first time since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011.
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The shift in strategy from Falcon Heavy to BFR for human spaceflight also means that Musk’s plan to send passengers around the moon sometime this year is definitely not going to happen.
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First Known Use of spaceflight
1931
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Definition of spaceflight for English Language Learners
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: flight into outer space in a spacecraft
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