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space travel

American  

noun

  1. spaceflight of manned vehicles.


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He wanted to capture attention, to fuel imaginations and, in turn, to create public support—excitement—for space travel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

To this day, Mars remains out of reach for human feet—taking a back seat to renewed interest in returning to the moon—a victim, perhaps, of the current politics of space travel.

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

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

When Jesse and I visited the bookstore together, I’d disappear into the science section, lost in books about quantum mechanics and space travel and theories I hardly understood but that fascinated me anyway.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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