Sentence examples for untethered space from inspiring English sources

The Task Force is co-chaired by Russell Schweickart, a former astronaut who took the first untethered space walk.

Schweickart, a rangy and congenial former astronaut known as Rusty, was the first man to fly a lunar module in space and the first to take an untethered space walk.

An untethered space walk like this would be unlikely today, with the shuttle programme wound up, though Nasa is now working on an advanced version of the MMU for the exploration of asteroids.

My friend Peter has a ridiculous bio, where he claims to have invented electricity and found Amelia Earhart on an island somewhere and that he holds the record for longest untethered space walk.

The result can provide the eye with a suggestion of the stability of landscape (as in "Citrinitas," above), or leave us dizzy and off-balance, searching for points of reference in untethered space.

The final two movements were brilliantly and beautifully strange: lines floating untethered in space, silences long and deep.

"Gravity" stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as engineer and astronaut untethered, their space ship a billion tiny pieces, their life support slipping away.

Looking at a Nancy Davidson sculpture feels like nodding off during a rerun of "The Smurfs," only to get simultaneously bombarded and seduced by Mama Smurf's whopping ass, floating untethered through space like a beach ball in a G-string. .

It appeared to bolster the administration's case that Bush had served, but had been ripped where it ought to have read "Bush, George W", leaving only a mysterious "W" floating untethered in white space.

An unexpected amount of debris is headed toward the shuttle faster than a speeding bullet, and before you can say "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," Stone is floating untethered in outer space, all communication cut off, alone, alone, alone.

This is the swiftest of visions, but it allows McNamer to lay out the landscape of her storytelling — the closely observed Montana terrain, where so much of the novel's action will take place, and the untethered, almost speculative air space marked by history and vast ambition.