How to Use space station in a Sentence

space station

noun
  • The four will spend half a year in orbit on the space station.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The pair are the first Saudi citizens to visit the space station.
    Jamie Groh, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • This is China's fifth mission to the space station since 2021.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 30 May 2023
  • The spacecraft was scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday.
    Greg Cannella, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The space station was built with four huge rotating solar wings, two on the right side of the lab and two on the left.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Last month, China launched the last of three modules for its own space station and has rovers on the moon and Mars.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That would allow some of the seven crew now on the space station to return home.
    Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Axiom plans to launch the first section of its space station to orbit in 2025.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • As the capsule closed in, the space station residents promised the new arrivals that their bunks were ready and the outside light was on.
    Marcia Dunn, ajc, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But the primary goal of the flight is to deliver research gear and equipment to the space station.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Frank Rubio, who launched to the space station two weeks ago from Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket.
    Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The spaceship had the youngest lineup since the construction of the Tiangong space station started.
    Fox News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Those rules were adopted in response to a fire that occurred on the Russian space station Mir in 1997.
    Michael Lee, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The telescope will fly in the same orbit as China’s Tiangong-3 space station and be able to dock for maintenance.
    Byscience News Staff, science.org, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The Starliner astronauts will spend about eight days at the space station on the Crew Flight Test mission.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The launch date for Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, has not been affected and is still scheduled for 2028.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In the news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Rubio spoke about the camaraderie on board the space station.
    Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The Progress cargo spacecraft has been attached to the space station since October.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Artemis program will establish a space station called the Lunar Gateway in orbit and a base on the surface.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Tiangong makes China only the third country in the world apart from the U.S. and Russia to send up astronauts and build a space station.
    Time, 31 Oct. 2022
  • On a clear night, observers with binoculars or a telescope may be able to spot the bag moving slightly ahead of the space station.
    Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In 2020, the company flew two astronauts to the space station and returned NASA to human spaceflight for the first time in nine years.
    David W. Brown, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Their capsule should reach the space station on Saturday.
    Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • If the craft is deemed unsafe, then Roscosmos plans on launching a separate craft, the Soyuz MS-23, to the space station to take the cosmonauts back home.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Tiangong could become the only space station in orbit for its last few years.
    Karen Hao, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The capsule was scheduled to return to Earth with some of the space station's crew, as part of regular rotations, next March.
    Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In May, China launched a three-person crew for its orbiting space station and hopes to put astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade.
    Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And so Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin will remain aboard the space station until the new crew arrives.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Previous missions to the space station have taken about 13 hours from liftoff to docking.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Beyond that, Axiom Space is planning to build its own free-flying space station in the coming years.
    Jamie Groh, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023

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