How to Use spaceflight in a Sentence
spaceflight
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For the spaceflight, the breeding had to be timed just right.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
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This test flight comes ahead of the the Artemis II spaceflight scheduled for 2023.
—Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 18 June 2021
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This is the first spaceflight for Dominick, Epps and Grebenkin.
—Russell Lewis, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
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This is the first spaceflight for all four crew members.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 3 Sep. 2021
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At the time, the US had logged just 15 minutes of human spaceflight.
—Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2020
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But that wasn’t the end of spaceflight for the Wright brothers’ invention.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
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The launch marked the first human spaceflight mission to take off from Space Launch Complex-40.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
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This will be Williams' third spaceflight and the first for Cassada.
—Antonia Jaramillo, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2020
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While that spaceflight had a research focus, the Thursday launch will flaunt tourists for the first time.
—Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
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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
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That's five times the total number of satellites humans have launched since the dawn of spaceflight in the late 1950s.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
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Human spaceflight gives us eyes on the grounds, hands on the ground, everything else.
—Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
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The Crew Dragon ushered in the return of human spaceflight from US soil for the first time since 2011.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
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SpaceX was about to set a commercial spaceflight record.
—David W. Brown, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
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The company has said that the last spaceflight with an all-female crew was more than 60 years ago.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
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Amanda Nguyen She’s been in the headlines for more than just her time on the Blue Origin spaceflight this year.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 May 2025
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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
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In the Arnold era of almost-kind-of spaceflight, fears about who might take over or destroy the world pervaded the US.
—Sarah Scoles, Wired, 3 Mar. 2020
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The suits will be put to the test very soon as the first human spaceflight is set to take flight in the coming days with the flight window opening on Dec. 11.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2020
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That's five times the total number of satellites humans have launched since the dawn of spaceflight.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 July 2020
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But at its core lies the spaceflight equivalent of a bloodhound’s nose.
—science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
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The crew also met the men and women charged with preparing the Orion for spaceflight.
—USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
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The spaceflight vehicle will launch from a remote site in Van Horn, Texas.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 June 2021
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Koch also holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days.
—USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
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But that is, again, not what our human spaceflight program is about.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
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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
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Blue Origin waved off the New Glenn launch heading into a busy week for spaceflight.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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The first all-civilian, all-private spaceflight splashed down off the coast of Florida.
—Ramin Skibba, Wired, 18 Sep. 2021
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The most recent of SpaceX's private human spaceflights, a mission known as Fram2, took place in April.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 June 2025
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Dragon is a crucial workhorse of U.S. human spaceflight.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 5 June 2025
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