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 non-gender-specific 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
Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
Their Boeing Starliner docked into the ISS, and the pair were initially expected to spend around eight days in orbit as a test-run for the Starliner in its first manned flight, before returning to Earth on June 14.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
From saving the world in World War II, to getting a manned mission to the moon, to providing high-quality and accessible higher education, to winning the Cold War, this nation was once the pinnacle of determination and resolve.
—Steve Laffey, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
In April, Anduril beat out Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman in an Air Force competition for a new autonomous fighter drone that can fly alongside manned warplanes like robot wingmen.
—Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
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“Manned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manned. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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