How to Use spacecraft in a Sentence

spacecraft

noun
  • This was the 2nd time SpaceX has flown the Cygnus spacecraft.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
  • This was the 2nd time SpaceX has flown the Cygnus spacecraft.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The spacecraft will return the crew to Earth later his month.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Even a fleck of paint is enough to damage the window of a spacecraft.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Images of the spacecraft have never been shown to the public.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Many people have worked very hard to get the rocket and spacecraft to this point.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2022
  • There were a few issues and Glenn briefly took control of the spacecraft.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • With almost 45 years of space travel in its past, the spacecraft has been through a lot.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 May 2022
  • 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
  • Last month, the spacecraft flew by Venus in a maneuver that was designed to help slingshot the probe close to the sun.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In what ocean did the Orion spacecraft splashdown this week?
    — CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The first views of Earth from the Orion spacecraft may be released around 10 a.m. Wednesday.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Point Nemo has acted as a graveyard for hundreds of spacecraft in the past.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Feb. 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
  • Elon Musk's SpaceX, which supplied the rocket and spacecraft for the mission, livestreamed the landing.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The space agency spent much of the 2010s working with SpaceX and Boeing to develop, test, and fly spacecraft that could fly humans into space.
    — ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
  • And of course, neither ground stations nor GPS would work for gauging the speed of spacecraft orbiting other planets.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 10 May 2025

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