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space flight [′spās ‚flīt]
(aerospace engineering)
Travel beyond the earth's sensible atmosphere; space flight may be an orbital flight about the earth or it may be a more extended flight beyond the earth into space.


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The new Administration in Washington, ridden with self-doubt regarding the feasibility and cost of pursuing further outer space exploration, charged a "blue ribbon" panel with reviewing US human spaceflight programs.
The event is enabled by ESA's Directorate of Human Spaceflight and its Erasmus Centre and will be co-hosted by four European science museums.
Maj Timothy Peake, from Salisbury, in Wiltshire, was chosen even though the UK makes no contribution to Esa's human spaceflight programme.
 
 
 
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