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Definition of spaceflight
: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere
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Examples of spaceflight in a Sentence
a history of human spaceflight
Recent Examples of spaceflight from the Web
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Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and the spaceflight company Blue Origin, is trying to bring the cost of space travel down by reusing rockets.
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At a time when private spaceflight is growing increasingly popular around the globe, will Congress make the U.S. Space Corps a reality?
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After more than 50 years of human spaceflight, researchers know some of the risks posed to the human body by being in zero gravity.
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Eye trackers developed for spaceflight are now being used in corrective laser eye surgery to ensure correct laser beam positioning.
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And they'll be taught to fly supersonic T-38 jets, to help prepare them for the rigors of spaceflight, NASA officials said.
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The San Diego students plan to dispatch their experiment on a spacecraft that competed in the international Google Lunar XPrize challenge, a $30-million contest designed to come up with ways of lowering the cost of spaceflight.
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Melvin retired from NASA in 2014, after two spaceflights and four years working in the agency’s education department.
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Nevertheless, flying the vehicle again would represent a significant milestone for SpaceX. In six decades of spaceflight, only the five space shuttles, two X-37B space planes, and a single Soviet VA spacecraft have made two or more orbital flights.
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First Known Use of spaceflight
1931
SPACEFLIGHT Defined for English Language Learners
spaceflight
playDefinition of spaceflight for English Language Learners
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: flight into outer space in a spacecraft
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