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Williams later trained as a rotary aircraft test pilot before being selected by NASA in 1998 while deployed on the USS Saipan.
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
As the test pilots who became the faces of the Space Race, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, and Scott Glenn are perfectly laconic heroes, and the flying scenes are out of this world.
—Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
The first people selected to train for space flight were U.S. Navy test pilots, like Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space (May 5, 1961), and the second person after Yuri Gagarin (April 12, 1961).
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The test pilots were to originally spend eight days aboard the ISS in June, but this grew to eight months after NASA decided to bring Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule back to Earth without a crew in September.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
As the test pilots who became the faces of the Space Race, Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, and Scott Glenn are perfectly laconic heroes, and the flying scenes are out of this world.
—Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
The first people selected to train for space flight were U.S. Navy test pilots, like Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space (May 5, 1961), and the second person after Yuri Gagarin (April 12, 1961).
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The test pilots were to originally spend eight days aboard the ISS in June, but this grew to eight months after NASA decided to bring Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule back to Earth without a crew in September.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for test pilot
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On August 19, after climbers and supplies had been organized and a weather window opened up, Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon flew the team straight into the Kahiltna Glacier at 9,800 feet to start climbing—nearly three thousand feet above the usual base camp elevation.—
Maya Silver,
Outside Online,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
1 Jan. 2024
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The remainder of the trailer shows glimpses of Fielder gazing longingly at a potential love interest, engineering a social mixer of fake pilots and real pilots, delivering testimony at a political assembly, and more.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
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The home is named after The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Apr. 2025
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The future will be defined by the interplay between agents and copilots, between automation and human oversight.—
Mike Villalobos,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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An employee could query the chat or copilot to get access to colleagues’ email content, potentially exposing personal information, client communications or executive discussions.—
Keren Katz,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Luis Marrero had 20 kills, 11 digs and 2 aces for Lake Brantley (12-2) in its 22-25, 25-19, 25-9, 25-22 win, while De’Aundre Williams had 15 kills and 5 blocks, and Efrain Rivera Rodriguez added 46 assists and 10 digs.—
Steve Gorches,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2025
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Boys volleyball Tuto Sampaio erupted for 19 kills, four aces and nine digs to anchor Winchester in a 3-2 Middlesex League win over Arlington.—
Kristina Banahan,
Boston Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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