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Then in July, NASA astronaut Anil Menon on his first spaceflight, will join Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, flying on the Soyuz MS-29 mission launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
But a few months later, in June 2024, Virgin Galactic stopped flying VSS Unity to focus on the development of its next-generation vehicle capable of more frequent, lower-cost spaceflights.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
The expedition became the first spaceflight to send humans near the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years, with the crew traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them while seeing unprecedented views of the moon.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
The Apollo Era On Apollo 8’s launch day, human spaceflight was less than a decade old, and no one had seen the Earth from beyond orbit.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
But a few months later, in June 2024, Virgin Galactic stopped flying VSS Unity to focus on the development of its next-generation vehicle capable of more frequent, lower-cost spaceflights.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
The expedition became the first spaceflight to send humans near the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years, with the crew traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them while seeing unprecedented views of the moon.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
The Apollo Era On Apollo 8’s launch day, human spaceflight was less than a decade old, and no one had seen the Earth from beyond orbit.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
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“Spaceflight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceflight. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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spaceflight
noun
space·flight
ˈspās-ˌflīt 
: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere
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