Sentence examples for half a million miles from inspiring English sources

At a press briefing on Tuesday to mark the flyby, team members released images of Ultima Thule taken when New Horizons was still half a million miles away.

Laser beams are the only way to bounce light off the Moon because only they are concentrated enough to remain tightly focused during the round trip of roughly half a million miles.

But remember that the probe was perhaps half a million miles away when it took the above images (on December 31), plus it was traveling at a relative speed of about 32,000 miles per hour.

They have accumulated more than 1,000 shows, half a million miles and performed in 32 states.

"Billy really likes to take care of everybody," says Jackson. "Honestly, he has a car that has about a half a million miles on it, and he probably knows every toll booth operator in Oklahoma". "I can't tell you how many people bring in their kids to meet Billy," continues Jackson.

As vice president, I've traveled half a million miles around the world.

During this time, it has made detailed scientific observations and taken thousands of high-resolution photographs, beaming them to Earth, half a billion miles away.

Half a billion miles away, the Galileo spacecraft will be ending its nearly 14-year mission to Jupiter, disintegrating as it plunges into the planet's thick atmosphere.

The Space Transportation System was the official name of the five space shuttles, which clocked up more than half a billion miles ferrying back and forth.

The last of Galileo's data arrived on Earth today after the spacecraft was destroyed, taking 52 minutes to cross half a billion miles of space.

"I did an Ironman — that's with a two-and-a-half-mile swim, a hundred and twelve miles on the bike, and then a marathon," he said.