manned

adjective

ˈmand 

see usage paragraph below

: carrying, staffed, or performed by one or more people

a manned security booth

manned spaceflight

a manned mission

Usage of Manned and Unmanned

While manned and unmanned are still commonly used in news sources to describe spaceflights with and without human crews, respectively, NASA has since the early 21st century used and prescribed gender-neutral terms, preferring such descriptors as human, piloted, and crewed for the former, and unpiloted and uncrewed for the latter.

Examples of manned in a Sentence

a manned mission to the moon

Recent Examples on the Web

Incidentally, the first manned enemy aircraft kill by an F-35 of any kind was executed by an Israeli Air Force F-35I Adir against one of Iran’s Yak-130s over Tehran in March during the war. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Without going into too much detail, current military planning sees the conventional reliance on manned combat aircraft as a major problem. — David Szondy june 20, New Atlas, 20 June 2026

Carolyn had been with NASA from the very beginning of manned spaceflight. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026

Thanks to its modular platform design, AeroForce X can be flexibly configured and deployed in combination with existing manned reconnaissance aircraft for a wide range of missions. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1583, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for manned

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand

Kids Definition

manned

adjective

ˈmand 

: carrying or performed by a person

manned spaceflight