How to Use rocketry in a Sentence

rocketry

noun

• The launch was the rocketry equivalent of hiring a city bus to take two people to the movies.
  — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• But in rocketry, as in life, sometimes the most careful plans go astray.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• What made the prospect real in the 20th century was the advent of rocketry.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• Thanks to Tsiolkovsky, Russia got in on the ground floor of rocketry and space travel.
  — Dan Q. Posin, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2021
• The city was also once home to the father of modern rocketry and the inventor of the smiley face.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
• Elon Musk has built his SpaceX rocketry company on the dream of colonising Mars.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• This research could shed light on a wide range of fields, like rocketry and ballistics.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2022
• And there are plans in 2022 to use SpaceX rocketry to launch the Psyche mission -- a probe to study a metallic asteroid.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 19 July 2021
• But those are only a small part of the progress happening in the world of rocketry and human space exploration.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2021
• Just about a year ago, SpaceX sent the rocketry equivalent of a clown car to space: A rocket crowded with more than 60 small satellites.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 29 Dec. 2019
• But the market changed when sports/GTs became exercises in rocketry and the dollar dipped versus the deutsche mark.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 12 May 2020
• SpaceX still needs to pull off a series of formidable rocketry firsts before Starship is ready to head to the moon and beyond.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Then not just point-to-point but all rocketry would become vastly more practical.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2017
• Shehata said there’s a chance some rocketry could occur there.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
• This is all new for a country that does not have a deep history of rocketry or launching satellites into space.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
• Army rocketry was, of course, always destined for war, so von Braun’s use of the word suggested the fulfillment of a plan, more than a conversion.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• All of these launches would have been more expensive using NASA rocketry.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 19 July 2021
• As is often the case with rocketry, test launches have had their share of hitches; a June 2022 launch from Hawaii saw the launch boosters work, but the glide-vehicle fail to reach its target.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2023
• The first person to think of this force as a benefit for reentry was rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• This price will surely only decrease as SpaceX continues to advance its rocketry systems and drive down the cost of each launch.
  — Dallon Adams, Fox News, 18 May 2017
• Wen became involved in model rocketry in the eighth grade and became enamored.
  — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
• The growth is spurred by advances in miniaturization, low-cost electronics and rocketry.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
• The 20th century was, after all, also the century of the mechanized death of the Nazi death camps and of the advanced rocketry Germany employed to attack Great Britain.
  — David Shribman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• The significance of the test flight goes well beyond the combustible violence of rocketry as performance art.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• While SpaceX stands out from its rocketry competitors, that doesn't mean the company is or will be uncontested.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 May 2022
• The Marshall Space Flight Center, the government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center, is on the base and also was in lockdown.
  — Emily Bohatch, USA TODAY, 27 June 2017
• All this would be in service of replacing rocket boosters, which power the first stage of multistage launch vehicles, and are some of the most expensive parts of rocketry.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2018
• The stakes for a successful launch for Relativity There’s a saying in rocketry—when the countdown clock hits zero, a million things can happen, and only one of them is good.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
• In the modern era, the Air Force has been the centerpiece of America's space missions, making strides in the fields of rocketry, satellite launching, and spacecraft technology -- helping pave the way for the moon landing in 1969.
  — Nick Givas, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2020
• As a teenage member of rocketry club outside Berlin, he had been mentored by the mathematician Hermann Oberth, who published books about space travel.
  — David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024