Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science and technology of space flight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the theory and practice of navigation through the upper atmosphere or outer space; the science of travel in space.
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- noun
Navigation throughspace . - noun The
science andtechnology ofspaceflight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the theory and practice of navigation through air or space
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Examples
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A very kind and gentle man, with an expansive knowledge of astronautics, Konrad Dannenberg has his place in space history.
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The new system "can cover the civilian and military sides," said Xu Shijie, a professor of astronautics at Beihang University in Beijing.
Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation Keith B. Richburg 2011
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The "complete ISS" is grossly under-equipped to achieve billion-dollar breakthroughs in fundamental biology, physics, and chemistry, or in applied astronautics, materials science, and space systems.
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NASA should be turned back into a pure R&D organisation, purely for developing blue-sky innovations in aeronautics and astronautics.
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The new system "can cover the civilian and military sides," said Xu Shijie, a professor of astronautics at Beihang University in Beijing.
Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation Keith B. Richburg 2011
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I remember being at an informal group watching Konrad answer a young schoolchild's question in simple understandable words and then turn to another person in the group who had advanced degree in astronautics and answer a complex theoretical question just as clearly after a breif moment of thought.
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The crowd is better dressed, and often working in the field: one woman I remembered from years back as an activist with Students for the Exploration and Development of Space is now a professor of astronautics at MIT; another former student space activist now coordinates space matters for Google.
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Akin got his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in aeronautics and astronautics.
Gear-head nirvana: U-Md. space center is voted one of nation's 'most awesome college labs' Michelle R. Davis 2010
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Newey was born in Colchester 51 years ago and studied aeronautics and astronautics at Southampton University.
Adrian Newey's vision brings F1 glory to Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel Richard Williams 2010
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He was a 1949 astronautics and aeronautics graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. His first marriage, to Patricia Sweet, ended in divorce.
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