How to Use spaceflight in a Sentence

spaceflight

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  • But that wasn’t the end of spaceflight for the Wright brothers’ invention.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • While that spaceflight had a research focus, the Thursday launch will flaunt tourists for the first time.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As with any aspect of spaceflight, skip entry is not without its risks.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Having traveled billions of miles, Tombaugh has the distinction of the longest post-mortem spaceflight.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • What lessons does the loss of the Titan submersible have for preventing spaceflight disasters?
    — Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
  • More than three decades later, spaceflight is not yet available to everyone, not even close.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
  • One is the rise of commercial spaceflight and its profusion of rockets and satellites.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The space agency’s new, cornerstone human spaceflight program, called Artemis, aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • To date, SpaceX has flown 11 human spaceflight missions overall.
    — Jamie Groh, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Isaacman has partnered with SpaceX to fund his own private spaceflight program, with a series of missions in the coming years.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Given that people have lived aboard the ISS for as much as a year at a time, a brief layover there while waiting for your connecting spaceflight doesn’t seem so bad.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Avenue 5 is set roughly 40 years in the future, when private spaceflight, aka space tourism, is totally a thing.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
  • It was grown in March by American astronaut Frank Rubio, who holds the record for longest spaceflight at 370 days.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Human spaceflight achievements show that China is running a steady space marathon rather than competing in a head-to-head space race with the United States.
    — Claire Fu, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Giving us human spaceflight plus robotic or other satellite spacecraft gives us the best of both worlds.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Two Asian powers notched achievements in their human spaceflight programs this week.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • For the first time in more than sixty years of spaceflight, our species would be not just exploring the solar system but rearranging it.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That was the closest Europe ever came to having its own human spaceflight program.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023

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