Spaceflight

Definition: Spaceflight

Spaceflight

Noun

1. A voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spaceflight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

"Spaceflight" is a common misspelling or typo for: space flight.

Synonyms: Spaceflight

Crosswords: Spaceflight

Spaceflight (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Spaceflight Dynamics (McGraw-Hill Series in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering) (reference)

• From Airship to Spaceship: Long Island in Aviation and Spaceflight (reference)

• Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) (reference)

• Russian - Soviet Spaceflight and the Mir Space Station (reference)

• Introduction to Space: The Science of Spaceflight (Orbit, a Foundation Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Spaceflight - The Application of Orbital Mechanics (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

As seen in Time Magazine (September 7,1998)Sunlight glints off Hurricane Bonnie as it approaches the North Carolinacoast on the morning of August 26, 1998 (07:37 EDT). Data derived fromNOAA-12 satellite. Image produced by Hal Pierce, Laboratory forAtmospheres, NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center. Credit: NASA.

Hurricane Bonnie approaching the Eastern Seaboard of the United States on1998 August 25, as viewed by GOES-8 (GeostationaryOperational Environmental Satellite). Image produced by DennisChesters, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen and Mark Sutton, Laboratory forAtmospheres, NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center. Credit: NASA.

TIROS VIII Automatic Picture Transmission Camera image of Baja California. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

TIROS VII orbit 4569 R/O 7679 image of Italy and Sicily. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

TIROS IX orbit 0022 image of Antarctica showing Ross Sea Ice Shelf. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

TIROS X orbit 0104 image of Nile River, Delta, and upper Red Sea. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Jet stream clouds south of Cape Blanc, north Atlantic coast of Africa photographed by TIROS VIII orbit 4671 R/O 4670. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Eddy patterns southeast of the Canary Islands. TIROS V orbit 0188. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Contrails south of San Diego. TIROS V orbit 3343. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Farsi 

پروازفضاءی . (various references)

German

Raumflug (shot, space flight). (various references)

Pig Latin

aceflightspay

Russian 

космический полет (space flight). (various references)

Thai

การเ�"ินทาง�"้วยยานอวกาศ. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spaceflight": spaceflights. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lightfaces.

-2 letters: fishplate, lightface, safelight.

-3 letters: chaplets, ethicals, flagship, fleapits, flitches, gestical, glitches, haplites, hepatics, pastiche, pistache, septical, teiglach, tieclasp.

-4 letters: achiest, aiglets, aitches, alights, aphetic, aplites, aseptic, cagiest, caliphs, caplets, catfish, chalets, chapels, chaplet, chitals, elastic, ethical, fecials, fetials, filches, fitches, fleapit, flights, halites, haplite, heliast, hepatic, hepcats, laciest, latches, latices, leftish, ligates.

+1 letter: spaceflights.