How to Use rocketry in a Sentence

rocketry

noun
  • But in rocketry, as in life, sometimes the most careful plans go astray.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This research could shed light on a wide range of fields, like rocketry and ballistics.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2022
  • Shehata said there’s a chance some rocketry could occur there.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
  • The launch was the rocketry equivalent of hiring a city bus to take two people to the movies.
    — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Local laws and fire codes may totally ban model rocketry in your area.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • Then not just point-to-point but all rocketry would become vastly more practical.
    — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Cinnamon fell in love with space, too, starting rocketry clubs at his middle and high school.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • What made the prospect real in the 20th century was the advent of rocketry.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • What made the prospect real in the 20th century was the advent of rocketry.
    — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • So the true implications of the leftover blast marks on Russian rocketry are still to come.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Wen became involved in model rocketry in the eighth grade and became enamored.
    — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
  • The true implications of the blast marks on Russia's rocketry ego remained vague.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The growth is spurred by advances in miniaturization, low-cost electronics and rocketry.
    — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
  • But probably the most important factor is a truism of rocketry.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Neither of those feats have ever been attempted before in the history of rocketry.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • Elon Musk has built his SpaceX rocketry company on the dream of colonising Mars.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • That type of catalog could help create a more complete picture of rocketry’s stratospheric side effects.
    — Leonard David, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
  • And a good bit of Germany’s wartime rocketry efforts and those of the Chinese 1,000 years ago.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The significance of the test flight goes well beyond the combustible violence of rocketry as performance art.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 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
  • All of these launches would have been more expensive using NASA rocketry.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • What excites me most about the future of rocketry is the expanding horizon of both performance and application.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The exercise looked like the work of amateur rocketry enthusiasts.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022

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