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Answer for the clue "A voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere ", 11 letters:
spacefaring

Word definitions for spacefaring in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Engaged in the building and launching of vehicles into space. n. (The practice of) spaceflight.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
To be spacefaring is to be capable of and active in the art of space travel or space transport , the operation of spacecraft or spaceplanes . It involves a knowledge of a variety of topics and development of specialised skills including: aeronautics ; astronautics ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere [syn: spaceflight , space travel ]

Usage examples of spacefaring.

An ancient spacefaring race the Linyaari knew only as the Ancestral Friends had saved the ki-lin from primitive and brutal humans who were hunting them to extinction on Terra, and brought them through the cosmos to Vhiliinyar, where they had thrived once again.

Beneath Picard, and Riker as he came to stand beside his captain, was the permanently moored border cutter Bozeman, docked here as a spacefaring museum.

The right of innocent passage and access to unclaimed celestial bodies is recognized by every spacefaring nation.

Hed told Elisabeth the Prideful Sue had returned to Earthsystem on very big and very hush-hush business, something he wasnt free to talk about, and that if the deal was concluded successfully he might be taking a long vacation from spacefaring.

He'd told Elisabeth the Prideful Sue had returned to Earthsystem on very big and very hush-hush business, something he wasn't free to talk about, and that if the deal was concluded successfully he might be taking a long vacation from spacefaring.

The merchanters, the faster-than-light freighters, are huge ships, some of the largest being veritable spacefaring villages run by a hierachy of captains, one for each shift, and are matrilinear (but not matriarchal) due to the lifestyle.

Since Cartan had been in orbit around Chandrasekhar, ninety-seven light years from Earth, for almost three centuries — and was currently even further from all the other spacefaring polises — Gisela was at a loss to imagine what urgent diplomatic tasks the mayor could be engaged in, let alone why it would want to consult her.

The space center was a prime target for the separatists, since it coordinated most of the spacefaring activity, as well as for religious fanatics who believed that the extrasolar-vessel program was an affront to the Demiurges.

At the dawn of space exploration, hu- mans had affixed various data-storage media to its space probes in the unlikely event they were ever recovered by aliens: first, analog at the time had hoped would be universal symbols, each derived from basic physical constants that could be interpreted by any spacefaring culture.