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• n  a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere

• On the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding, a small photo tribute to the unsung, furry pioneers who journeyed into orbit, paving the way for human spaceflight.
• His premature death prevented him from witnessing how his contribution benefited manned spaceflightand mankind.
• Garriott is preparing to join the crew of the Soyuz TMA 13 mission as a spaceflight participant, thanks to Space Adventures, a company he helped found.

• space travel
• spacefaring

News & Articles

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• Apollo Astronauts Honor Neil Armstrong, 'The Epitome of a Space Man'
  Some legends of spaceflight gathered today (June 20) to pay tribute to one of the best among them: Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon.
  June 20, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• Swiss Rocket Plane May Launch People on Private Science Trips
  PARIS — A startup Swiss spaceflight company is planning to upgrade its proposed private satellite launch system into a manned suborbital space shuttle for science missions, the company announced Monday (June 17).
  June 20, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• The U.S. Government Wants Your Input on Human Spaceflight
  What good is human spaceflight? This is the question being posed by the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) on behalf of The National Academies, and they want your answers.        
  June 18, 2013 - Wired News

Quotes

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• Barbara Morgan in FOXNews
  Spaceflight is risky,noted astronaut Barbara Morgan, the backup teacher for Challenger's doomed mission, "but we have all confidence that we're going to be able to do the right thing."
• Jeff Bezos in CNET News.com
  We're working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system,Bezos wrote on the Web site.
• Peter Diamandis in Forbes
  The key thing here is that weightless and personal spaceflight is something available to everyone, even someone like Prof. Hawking,Diamandis told The Associated Press. "This something that almost everyone can now experience."