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space travel

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noun

  1. spaceflight of manned vehicles.


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To reignite waning interest in space travel, Musk had initially tried concocting a publicity stunt to send plant seeds to Mars in hope of sprouting new life there.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

The puzzle Einstein and Rosen were addressing was never about space travel, but about how quantum fields behave in curved spacetime.

From Science Daily May 22, 2026

Meanwhile Elon Musk has cut the cost of space travel by at least an order of magnitude with the reusable rocket.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

Charlesworth said the team would have spent that time getting themselves "prepared for the unprepared", as they broke new-ground in human space travel.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2026

Five hundred and thirty-three days of unplanned space travel where anything could go wrong.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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