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Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of space flight English)
WordNet
n. a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere [syn: space travel, spacefaring]
Wikipedia
Spaceflight (also written space flight) is ballistic flight into or through outer space. Spaceflight can occur with spacecraft with or without humans on board. Examples of human spaceflight include the U.S. Apollo Moon landing and Space Shuttle programs and the Russian Soyuz program, as well as the ongoing International Space Station. Examples of unmanned spaceflight include space probes that leave Earth orbit, as well as satellites in orbit around Earth, such as communications satellites. These operate either by telerobotic control or are fully autonomous.
Spaceflight is used in space exploration, and also in commercial activities like space tourism and satellite telecommunications. Additional non-commercial uses of spaceflight include space observatories, reconnaissance satellites and other Earth observation satellites.
A spaceflight typically begins with a rocket launch, which provides the initial thrust to overcome the force of gravity and propels the spacecraft from the surface of the Earth. Once in space, the motion of a spacecraft—both when unpropelled and when under propulsion—is covered by the area of study called astrodynamics. Some spacecraft remain in space indefinitely, some disintegrate during atmospheric reentry, and others reach a planetary or lunar surface for landing or impact.
Spaceflight is the monthly magazine of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). It was first published in 1956, a year before the launch of Sputnik 1, and has been reporting on space exploration topics ever since.
Spaceflight is published monthly with each volume of 12 issues having continuous pagination and an annual index included with the December issue.
Widely used as a magazine of authoritative reference, Spaceflight has long been recognised as a prime source of information on international space programmes and commercial space exploration.
Regular features, often written by those directly involved in a particular technology or project, cover aspects of space technology and exploration, astronomy, satellites, commercial space, political activities and educational programmes. The magazine also includes detailed space mission reports.
Spaceflight is intended to be appropriate for those professionally involved in the space business and for those with a general interest in the subject.
In 2008 the magazine, edited by Clive Simpson, was the winner of the Sir Arthur Clarke Award in the category of Best Space Reporting.
Spaceflight is a 1985 American documentary miniseries about manned spaceflight, originally broadcast by PBS in four parts. It is narrated by Martin Sheen and features interviews with many former astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. The series is a co-production of WETA-TV and WYES-TV. The final episode (Part 4) was redone after the Challenger explosion (the revision covered the inquiry and the return to flight as well).
Spaceflight is the act of traveling in outer space.
Spaceflight or Space flight may also refer to:
- Spaceflight (magazine), published by the British Interplanetary Society
- Spaceflight (TV series), a 1985 American documentary miniseries about manned spaceflight
- CU Spaceflight, a student-run Cambridge University society
- Space Flight (album), by Sam Layzar
Usage examples of "spaceflight".
When Man achieved spaceflight, he colonized New Kenya and Uganda II and Nyerere, but the Maasai were left behind with no lands, no cattle, not even the memory of their own language.
And if an alien invasion were in progress, why would the Air Force, traditionally led by pilots, step back from manned spaceflight and launch all its payloads on unmanned boosters?
A hologram of Carrik, taken when he used his credit plate for spaceflight to Fuerte five days before, flowed across the viewplate.
And because of that, Crile Fisher, though he had been on many a spaceflight before, was a bit uneasy.
This has been the dilemma of all spaceflight: to carry an additional redundant system, or to add value elsewhere?
Whether preventive or clinical medicine, spaceflight was for the few.
My Notebooks told me about actuarial tables, devices for predicting death rates, that even predated human spaceflight.
She was as tall as any woman of the hundred families, whose geneticists had concentrated on enhancing sturdiness so their descendants could comfortably spend a lifetime coping with the arduous conditions of spaceflight.
It had shocked Emma to learn that even comparatively unambitious human spaceflights incurred a lot of danger, much of it unacceptable to bodies like OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
On happier days, Dana had come to throw baseballs with Jake, and to make paper airplanes for little Mary, and to argue the politics and engineering of spaceflight with his son.
She was not going to have a disaster on every spaceflight for the rest of her life, and if she did she would just survive it, the way she'd survived everything else.
And since die only surviving cow bufialo was on Cor Caroli VI, and since the zoo keeper diere claimed Shaddupa suffered from terrible Singularity stress and couldn't possibly handle spaceflight, the preservation of the species required that Thunderbolt III be transported to Cor Caroli VI.