Sentence examples for spacecraft of from inspiring English sources

The Jules Verne is the first fully automatic cargo spacecraft of its kind.

Humans have outdone themselves with unmanned spacecraft, of course, sending probes far beyond distant Pluto.

Spacecraft of this type may be either manned or unmanned, the latter being the most common.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students learn about the orbital space plane, NASA's proposed spacecraft of the future.

"It's so quaint, so romantic and very fitting for the spacecraft of that time," said the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister.

There will be a terrace on the roof where a spacecraft of 12 meters in diameter may land.

She displayed a picture taken by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn and its glowing rings eclipsing the Sun, revealing in the shadow a barely noticeable speck called Earth.

By contrast even the comparatively primitive two-person Gemini spacecraft of the mid-60s achieved a maximum altitude of 850 miles — more than twice as high.

The White House, meanwhile, got about $400m a year to help the private sector develop spacecraft of their own to fly NASA astronauts to the ISS.

Spacecraft of this type are used for scientific research and for other purposes, such as communication, weather forecasting, navigation and global positioning, Earth resources management, and military intelligence.

READERS of a certain age may remember "Fireball XL5", a children's television programme devised by Gerry Anderson about a spacecraft of that name.