How to Use spacefaring in a Sentence

spacefaring

adjective
  • The richest man in the world is counting down the minutes to his spacefaring debut.
    Andrew Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2021
  • But for a species that fancies itself a spacefaring one, the findings are bad news.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The spacefaring world of the game is beautiful, brightly colored, a site of awe and mystery—and absolutely depressing to the core.
    Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Among the spacefaring nations, the United States is by far the most exposed, operating more than half of all active satellites circling the globe.
    Rachel Riederer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • All Access shows bend over backward to build trendy device anxiety into the spacefaring canon.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 July 2020
  • Achieve all this and humans will have assured its own survival and become a true spacefaring civilization.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • For the first time in 4.5 billion years, a creature living on Earth has the ability to do something about this threat by helping humanity to become a spacefaring species.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This spacefaring exploration title from the makers of Sword & Sworcery has players take on the role of Mei, an interstellar scout who's been slumbering for over a thousand years.
    Jess Grey, Wired, 11 June 2020
  • In 1967, as the US and the Soviet Union sprinted to develop their spacefaring capabilities, concern grew that world powers might use space as a staging ground for weapons of mass destruction.
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Taylor soon realized that his purpose was to help humanity extend its reach into space to become a spacefaring species.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The vision of a trillion-strong spacefaring civilization may lead one to believe that issues such as inequality and poverty ought to be put into perspective.
    Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • Nelson said all spacefaring nations must be transparent in their operations regarding the reentry of objects from space in order to minimize the risks to people and property on Earth.
    Fox News, 9 May 2021
  • The space station's pending retirement also raised big questions about how the United States will continue its partnerships with other spacefaring nations.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Nov. 2020
  • People also whispered that Elon Musk was at Spaceport too, which bolsters the argument that there isn't in fact some cutthroat competition between the spacefaring billionaires, despite what some headlines have claimed.
    Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 21 July 2021
  • Lee also used this spacefaring opportunity to test a drug with the potential to simultaneously strengthen both muscle and bone.
    Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The prospects for China supporting the mission seem promising, with the country eager to cement its spacefaring capabilities after already returning samples from the moon, landing on Mars and building a crewed space station in low-Earth orbit.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
  • American spaceflight has changed so much since then—the propulsion systems that power the missions are more sophisticated, the people who fly them are more likely to be women, and competition among spacefaring countries has become friendlier.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • This assertion reflects that Russia, more than any other spacefaring nation, has historically dominated the exploration of Venus—and seeks to preserve its preeminence there.
    Leonard David, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
  • There is simply no way that humanity can become a spacefaring civilization without major regulatory reform.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 30 June 2021

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