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a history of human spaceflight
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The most recent of SpaceX's private human spaceflights, a mission known as Fram2, took place in April.
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Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Sleepless in orbit NASA conducted one of the first experiments on the effects of spaceflight on stem cells in 2010 using the space shuttle Discovery.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Both assignments solidified McArthur's place in NASA history as the last astronaut to physically interface with Hubble, and one of the first to steer the space agency into an era of commercial spaceflight.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The interim objectives include things like catching and reusing Starships, in-orbit ship-to-ship refueling, and finally long-duration spaceflight to reach the Moon and stay there for weeks, months, or years.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Sleepless in orbit NASA conducted one of the first experiments on the effects of spaceflight on stem cells in 2010 using the space shuttle Discovery.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Both assignments solidified McArthur's place in NASA history as the last astronaut to physically interface with Hubble, and one of the first to steer the space agency into an era of commercial spaceflight.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The interim objectives include things like catching and reusing Starships, in-orbit ship-to-ship refueling, and finally long-duration spaceflight to reach the Moon and stay there for weeks, months, or years.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Spaceflight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceflight. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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spaceflight
noun
space·flight
ˈspās-ˌflīt 
: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere
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