The Collaborative International Dictionary
Space travel \Space travel\, n. the process of travelling in or into outer space.
Wiktionary
n. travel through space in order to visit and explore other worlds
WordNet
n. a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere [syn: spaceflight, spacefaring]
Wikipedia
Space travel can refer to:
- Spacefaring, the capability of and activity in the art of space travel
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Spaceflight, the use of space technology to fly a spacecraft into and through outer space, which may include:
- Human spaceflight
- Interplanetary spaceflight
- Interstellar travel
- Intergalactic travel
- Space Travel (video game), an early computer game
Space Travel is an early video game developed by Ken Thompson in 1969 that simulates travel in the solar system. The player flies their ship around a two-dimensional scale model of the solar system with no objectives other than to attempt to land on various planets and moons. The player can move and turn the ship, and adjust the overall speed by adjusting the scale of the simulation. The ship is affected by the single strongest gravitational pull of the astronomical bodies.
The game was developed at Bell Labs before the rise of the commercial video game industry in the early history of video games, and was ported during 1969 from the Multics operating system to the GECOS operating system on the GE 635 computer, and then to the PDP-7 computer. As a part of porting the game to the PDP-7, Thompson developed his own operating system, which later formed the core of the Unix operating system. Space Travel never spread beyond Bell Labs or had an effect on future games, leaving its primary legacy as part of the original push for the development of Unix.
Usage examples of "space travel".
Your job is to destroy London now, not worry about space travel later on.
He had told me only the day before that he had been correlating odd data-unidentified sightings, unexpected opposition to space travel, many things that did not fit.
This was not so much for space travel as to provide the considerable power required for translation.
Too much to think that beings with space travel will automatically be peaceful.
My own lifetimeneither especially long nor especially short these dayshas seen the rise of antibiotics, AIDS, space travel, television, CDs, videotape, DVDs, Richard Nixon (twice), civil rights, womens rights, gay rights, cell phones, the computer, and the Internet.
It was a meaningless phrase, still current after all these years of space travel.
To him, space travel and everything associated with it were sacrosanct.
They developed space travel several thousand years ago, but never bothered with it much beyond going to the moon and back.
This trip out to Mars and her moons was old, charted and laid out by a pair of generations and more of space travel.