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Space Transport
Also Known As Spaceflight The term the discipline's own literature uses interchangeably with space transport.
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Space transport is the use of spacecraft to carry people or cargo into, through, or back from outer space, encompassing both human spaceflight and uncrewed cargo missions. Orbital space transport began on 4 October 1957, when a derivative of the Soviet R-7 rocket launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to reach orbit. For most of the following six decades nearly all orbital transport was funded and flown by national governments; commercial space transport became a rapidly developing field only in the 2010s, marked by SpaceX's first vertical landing and recovery of an orbital class rocket first stage on 21 December 2015. Government and private operators today use space transport to carry communications satellites, scientific payloads, cargo and crew to orbit.
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Core ConcernGetting people and cargo into, through and safely back from outer space; historically a government monopoly funded through national space programs, and increasingly commercial since reusable rockets began lowering the cost of each launch in the 2010s. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Spaceflight (Wikipedia)
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the use of spacecraft to transport people or cargo into or through outer space. This may include human spaceflight and cargo spacecraft flight.
1. Spaceflight (Wikipedia)
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derivatives of his R-7 Semyorka missiles were used to launch the world's first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957.
1. Spaceflight (Wikipedia)
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Today major launch markets such as communication satellites and satellite television are purely commercial, though many of the launchers were originally funded by governments.
1. Spaceflight (Wikipedia)
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Spaceflight (also space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
1. Spaceflight (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia: Saturn V
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The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon.
Wikipedia: Wernher von Braun
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Following the war, he relocated to the United States, developing missiles for the US Army and later designing rockets for NASA's Apollo program.
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