Sentence examples for the spacefaring from inspiring English sources
noun
(The practice of) spaceflight.
This is our opportunity to develop a more internationalist vision, to which all the spacefaring nations contribute".
The risk was divvied up among the spacefaring nations, with the United States receiving just under half of the total allocation: one chance in forty thousand.
The optimistic Dr. McCurdy noted that private entrepreneurs continued to invest in space technology and transport systems and that "other nations clamor to join the spacefaring club".
One alluring detail: NASA scientists will be studying sperm motility in the spacefaring mice to try to figure out if humans could successfully procreate on a long space voyage.
The new year is upon us, and there will be no escape from the relentless comparisons between the spacefaring future world we saw in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the reality of our measly earthbound life in the real 2001.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has seemed more interested in making it to Mars than in building commercial space stations, but the spacefaring startup would be an interesting candidate in terms of private companies who could potentially assume control of the ISS.
Building upon the important experience acquired with the development of the International Space Station, the major spacefaring countries are working within the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) at the definition of a coordinated framework for expanding the human presence beyond the Low Earth Orbit, the Global Exploration Roadmap GERR).
Since the Americans have invested most in space, it is they who could suffer more if war or accident were to fill space with clouds of debris and kill or blind their satellites.At least write a spaceway codeIn the meantime, the big spacefaring countries ought to consider negotiating some less formal rules of the road.
It is inconceivable that the United States, the leading spacefaring nation, will stop sending astronauts into space.
"You will see the Chinese quite visibly begin to match the capacity of the other spacefaring powers by 2020," predicts Brian Harvey, space analyst and author of China in Space: The Great Leap Forward.
With their concerted effort to expand human spaceflight capabilities, China is quickly establishing dominance as one of the leading spacefaring nations in the world.
