How to Use space station in a Sentence

space station

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  • The four will spend half a year in orbit on the space station.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Two others in that elite group are now at the space station.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 May 2022
  • The suits should be ready for testing on the space station within a few years.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • April will be a busy month of comings and goings at the space station.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • There are cracks on the Russian segment of the space station that are spreading.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 June 2024
  • Its next act was to be a commercial space station of its own.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The Starliner spacecraft has been on its first crewed test flight to the space station.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • The Rebel fleet counters with a massive attack on the space station.
    — Genesis Malone, The Courier-Journal, 1 June 2022
  • Axiom plans to launch the first section of its space station to orbit in 2025.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Where do astronauts sleep – or camp out on – the space station?
    — Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • As the capsule closed in, the space station residents promised the new arrivals that their bunks were ready and the outside light was on.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But the primary goal of the flight is to deliver research gear and equipment to the space station.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Crew Dragon fliers were welcomed aboard the space station but its nine-member crew.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Frank Rubio, who launched to the space station two weeks ago from Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The spaceship had the youngest lineup since the construction of the Tiangong space station started.
    — Fox News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Those rules were adopted in response to a fire that occurred on the Russian space station Mir in 1997.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The space agency, meanwhile, would very much like a second means of reaching the space station.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
  • At least a half-dozen private companies plan to launch their own space stations in the coming decades.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2024

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