Examples of crewmate in a Sentence
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After sticking that historic landing, Archer jumped off his bike, and with arms triumphantly raised, ran to crewmates in joyous celebration.
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David K. Li, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
Commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates—pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—were named to the Artemis II crew on April 3.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 July 2023
Kohler and her crewmates put on their wildfire gear — fire-resistant pants and jackets — and drove in a pickup to the scene.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
On future trips to the Florida spaceport, Koch and her crewmates will climb inside the Orion crew module multiple times for testing and checkouts.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023
Officials have told media that, during the boarding, one of the SEALs fell into the sea and the other went in after in an attempt to save his crewmate.
—TIME, 22 Jan. 2024
Once their surface operations are complete, the astronauts will ascend on Starship to rejoin their crewmates onboard Orion for the return to Earth.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
The mission had been planned to orbit Earth, but intelligence reports that the Soviets were readying a crewed mission around the moon led NASA to change its plan, sending Mr. Borman, Lovell and crewmate William Anders more than 230,000 miles away from Earth and to orbit the moon 10 times.
—Eryn Brown, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
Rubio and his two Russian crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, were never in grave danger aboard the ISS as NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos scrambled to secure their journey home.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
David K. Li, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
Commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates—pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—were named to the Artemis II crew on April 3.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 July 2023
Kohler and her crewmates put on their wildfire gear — fire-resistant pants and jackets — and drove in a pickup to the scene.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
On future trips to the Florida spaceport, Koch and her crewmates will climb inside the Orion crew module multiple times for testing and checkouts.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023
Officials have told media that, during the boarding, one of the SEALs fell into the sea and the other went in after in an attempt to save his crewmate.
—TIME, 22 Jan. 2024
Once their surface operations are complete, the astronauts will ascend on Starship to rejoin their crewmates onboard Orion for the return to Earth.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
The mission had been planned to orbit Earth, but intelligence reports that the Soviets were readying a crewed mission around the moon led NASA to change its plan, sending Mr. Borman, Lovell and crewmate William Anders more than 230,000 miles away from Earth and to orbit the moon 10 times.
—Eryn Brown, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
Rubio and his two Russian crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, were never in grave danger aboard the ISS as NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos scrambled to secure their journey home.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1938, in the meaning defined above
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