How to Use spacecraft in a Sentence

spacecraft

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  • The spacecraft will return the crew to Earth later his month.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Images of the spacecraft have never been shown to the public.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • And that was one of the surprises that the spacecraft gifted to the scientists.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • All this requires knowing what the spacecraft is about to land on.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Most of these moons are very small and were found in the last few decades by new telescopes and passing spacecraft.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Orion spacecraft is set to splashdown in just a couple of hours.
    — ABC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The views of the Moon from human spacecraft—the first in more than half a century—were brilliant.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The plan called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn’t happen.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Japan in January became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In what ocean did the Orion spacecraft splashdown this week?
    — CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The Artemis Orion spacecraft completed a trip around the moon this week.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Once again, all of the coolant on board a Russian spacecraft leaked into space due to a rupture.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And if everything had gone as planned, the Starship spacecraft would have flown across the globe and reentered off the coast of Hawaii.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, an airplane takes off with a spacecraft strapped to its wing.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Views of Earth from spacecraft and the moon are constant reminders of our place in the solar system.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Limón’s words will be engraved on the side of the spacecraft, representing all of Earth.
    — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • It is designed to protect the spacecraft and the astronauts on board.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But there’s no doubt the Starship team will be back up and running with a brand-new spacecraft in the very near future.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Four astronauts set to fly around the moon and back next year have gotten their first glimpse of the spacecraft that will take them there.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The mission, set to launch toward the end of 2024, will be the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, the vessel that has been tapped to send humans to Mars.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 17 Apr. 2023
  • These names will be stenciled into microchips that will be part of the spacecraft.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The photos, which were taken from the Cassini spacecraft, show the unique moon in a new level of detail.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Russia launched an uncrewed spacecraft late last week in a bid to become the first country to land at the moon’s south pole.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly all of the spacecraft should have burned up during reentry.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The Starship spacecraft, riding atop the booster, soared out over the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Sixty-two years later, this will be the 100th launch of the Atlas V, which is used to hoist satellites as well as spacecraft.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 May 2024
  • Five days into its test run past the moon and back, the Orion spacecraft is performing as hoped.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Astronauts need sharpness to see and read the small gauges and dials found in a spacecraft’s cockpit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2023
  • The spacecraft's journey to Europa has been long and arduous before even launching.
    — Joel Achenbach, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The mission is expected to last at least three years with the possibility of an extension depending on the spacecraft's health.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2024

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