: not carrying or performed by people : having no crew
an uncrewed flight
uncrewed spacecraft
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That mission was an uncrewed flight test conducted to validate SLS and the Orion capsule, which will carry astronauts on Artemis II and III.
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
Musk has indicated that Starship’s first uncrewed mission to Mars will happen by 2026-end.
—Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
For an uncrewed test flight in 2014, called EFT-1, the mission team outfitted an Orion capsule with a heat shield applied in the same manner as in the Apollo era — in an intricate honeycomb-like structure.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
But an Orion flew uncrewed around Earth in 2014 for Exploration Flight Test-1 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, and another uncrewed Orion went around the moon in 2022 with Artemis 1 — which flew atop SLS on the rocket's first flight.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
Musk has indicated that Starship’s first uncrewed mission to Mars will happen by 2026-end.
—Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
For an uncrewed test flight in 2014, called EFT-1, the mission team outfitted an Orion capsule with a heat shield applied in the same manner as in the Apollo era — in an intricate honeycomb-like structure.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
But an Orion flew uncrewed around Earth in 2014 for Exploration Flight Test-1 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, and another uncrewed Orion went around the moon in 2022 with Artemis 1 — which flew atop SLS on the rocket's first flight.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Uncrewed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncrewed. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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uncrewed
adjective
un·crewed
ˌən-ˈkrüd 
: having no crew
an uncrewed spacecraft
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