How to Use space station in a Sentence

space station

noun
  • The four will spend half a year in orbit on the space station.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The winner is to launch on a SpaceX rocket to the space station.
    — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And the space station — just how does that get power to move?
    — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • The men were the first new arrivals on the space station since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine last month.
    — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • At first, the kids run into a space station of some kind.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The first module of the Tiangong space station launched in April.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Two others in that elite group are now at the space station.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 May 2022
  • Ting says the project will go on until the space station retires in the next decade.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In several more hours, the crew will be able to open the hatches and move to the space station from the Soyuz.
    — Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The suits should be ready for testing on the space station within a few years.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • The Soviet Union built the first space station in 1971.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 6 Feb. 2025
  • April will be a busy month of comings and goings at the space station.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The module will soon be released from the space station.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 3 June 2021
  • Axiom has said the flight would be the first all-private mission to the space station.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The pair are the first Saudi citizens to visit the space station.
    — Jamie Groh, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • This is China's fifth mission to the space station since 2021.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 30 May 2023
  • The spacecraft was scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday.
    — Greg Cannella, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The space station was built with four huge rotating solar wings, two on the right side of the lab and two on the left.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Techs working on the space station find weird eggs inside the ship.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 July 2022
  • The crew's launch and trip to the space station, which should take just over three hours, will be streamed live on NASA's website.
    — Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Already, Boeing has test-fired the thrusters while the spacecraft has been docked to the space station.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Last month, China launched the last of three modules for its own space station and has rovers on the moon and Mars.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That would allow some of the seven crew now on the space station to return home.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The two men and one woman are the second crew to move into the space station, which was launched last April.
    — Fox News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • There are cracks on the Russian segment of the space station that are spreading.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 June 2024
  • The space station is scheduled to launch later this decade.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Four more will be launched to reenergize the space station.
    — Fox News, 17 June 2021
  • Its next act was to be a commercial space station of its own.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Williams and Wilmore, part of last year’s Boeing Starliner mission that was meant to only last eight to 10 days, have been docked on the space station since June.
    — The Hill Staff, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
  • China is planning to send two new crews to its Tiangong space station in another busy year of human spaceflight.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2025

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