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a history of human spaceflight
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But the Polaris Dawn mission — a five-day journey to orbit carried out by the private sector rather than NASA — sought to take that research further, hoping to unravel some of the most troublesome aspects of spaceflight.
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Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
Completing the spacewalk was a milestone in the history of human spaceflight.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
The crew of Polaris Dawn, therefore, assumed non-trivial dangers in undertaking this spaceflight.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2024
Conceived in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and launched atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets on Tuesday, Isaacman’s five-day Polaris Dawn mission is the first of three journeys that have been planned to advance the state of the art in human spaceflight.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
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Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
Completing the spacewalk was a milestone in the history of human spaceflight.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
The crew of Polaris Dawn, therefore, assumed non-trivial dangers in undertaking this spaceflight.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2024
Conceived in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and launched atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets on Tuesday, Isaacman’s five-day Polaris Dawn mission is the first of three journeys that have been planned to advance the state of the art in human spaceflight.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Spaceflight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceflight. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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spaceflight
noun
space·flight
ˈspās-ˌflīt 
: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere
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