Sentence examples for operational spaceflight from inspiring English sources

Such a mission would serve as a first step beyond low Earth orbit and prove out operational spaceflight capabilities such as life support, communication, high speed re-entry, and radiation protection prior to more difficult human exploration missions.

The test facility consists of two complete spaceflight simulators, an aluminum-based operational arena, and a set of infrared motion tracking cameras; thus, the testbed is capable of representing space activities under circumstances prevailing on the ground.

The nine spaceflight emergency tasks were chosen from the Chinese spaceflight operation handbook.

Before the formal experiment, the two groups learned how to perform the nine spaceflight emergency tasks for 90 minutes to make sure the subjects established the correct mental operational model and reach a skill plateau.

They will serve as a platform for getting operational experience, reliability data and identifying technical problems before the next step is to be realized: in-orbit verification in a spaceflight experiment.

The official charged with regulating commercial spaceflight, Patricia Grace Smith of the Federal Aviation Administration, said in an interview, "When I look out 50 years from now, I fully expect that we will have actual, operational spaceports" that are commercially operated and owned.

Now, manned spaceflight is banal.

But human spaceflight is changing.

Nothing is straightforward in spaceflight".

Then there is human spaceflight.

His spaceflight brought him immediate worldwide fame.