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SPACE TRAVEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
Synonyms:
space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("space travel" is a kind of...):
voyage (a journey to some distant place)
Domain member category:
gravity-assist ((spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field)