spaceflight

or space flight

[ speys-flahyt ]

noun

1. the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spaceflight¹

First recorded in 1945–50; space + flight ¹

Example Sentences

Today, with inflation further flattening NASA’s budget and the high cost of its current focus — human spaceflight — there’s another slump in large, strategic science missions.

From Los Angeles Times

“They have set themselves a lot of ambitious objectives and they have relatively limited spaceflight experience.”

From BBC

A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off early Tuesday morning on a mission to reach a new milestone in human spaceflight: the first walk in space by private citizens.

From Los Angeles Times

That could lead to treatments tailored to individual astronauts to combat the effects of spaceflight.

From New York Times

The long awaited flight of the Boeing vehicle is the latest step in NASA’s efforts to rely more heavily on the private sector for its human spaceflight program.

From New York Times