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Spaceflight

Meaning in astronomy & space, with examples

/ˈspeɪsflaɪt/nounCommon term

In astronomy & space, spaceflight means: Travel into or through space by a spacecraft, with or without people on board. 'Human spaceflight' means missions that carry crews.

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How it is used

Common in agency names, books and policy texts: human spaceflight, commercial spaceflight, private spaceflight. Engineers also separate orbital from suborbital spaceflight.

Example sentences

  1. Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961 opened the era of human spaceflight.

  2. Long spaceflight affects the bones, muscles and eyesight of crew members.

Common collocations

  • human spaceflight
  • commercial spaceflight
  • suborbital spaceflight
  • long-duration spaceflight
  • astronautA person who is trained to travel and work in space on board a spacecraft or a space station.
  • missionA planned flight or project in space with a specific goal, such as sending a probe to Mars or taking a crew to a space station.
  • crew capsuleThe small spacecraft that carries astronauts to and from space. It sits on top of a rocket for launch and returns to Earth under parachutes.
  • microgravityThe condition of near weightlessness that people and objects experience in orbit, where everything falls around Earth together and seems to float.
  • launchThe act of sending a rocket, spacecraft or satellite up from the ground into space. As a verb, to send it up in this way.

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