How to Use spacecraft in a Sentence

spacecraft

noun

• The spacecraft will return the crew to Earth later his month.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Images of the spacecraft have never been shown to the public.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Four astronauts set to fly around the moon and back next year have gotten their first glimpse of the spacecraft that will take them there.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• The mission, set to launch toward the end of 2024, will be the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, the vessel that has been tapped to send humans to Mars.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 17 Apr. 2023
• These names will be stenciled into microchips that will be part of the spacecraft.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The photos, which were taken from the Cassini spacecraft, show the unique moon in a new level of detail.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Russia launched an uncrewed spacecraft late last week in a bid to become the first country to land at the moon’s south pole.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Nearly all of the spacecraft should have burned up during reentry.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Starship spacecraft, riding atop the booster, soared out over the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• Astronauts need sharpness to see and read the small gauges and dials found in a spacecraft’s cockpit.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 June 2023
• Two small probes did deploy, however, and one sent back the image of the spacecraft on the lunar surface.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Israeli Beresheet spacecraft crashed into the Moon in 2019 after a main engine failure.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
• Russia last week launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years; it's expected to touch down in the area in the coming days.
  — Tom Costello, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• So this design is not only tried and true, but stout enough to sling spacecraft outside of Earth’s orbit.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023
• Elon Musk’s spacecraft company will launch a third test flight for its rocket next week.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• The habitat mimics the size of a lunar base or small spacecraft and can house crews of four people for long periods of time.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Russia has launched uncrewed spacecraft to the Moon’s south pole — its first lunar mission in 47 years.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
• Thursday’s third attempt marked the spacecraft’s longest flight so far.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• Last month, India landed a robotic spacecraft near the moon's south pole, a coveted area that holds water in the form of ice.
  — Julia Mio Inuma, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• If all goes well, the spacecraft will catch up with the space station Saturday morning and stand by for capture by the lab's robot arm.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024