How to Use spacefaring in a Sentence

spacefaring

adjective
  • But for a species that fancies itself a spacefaring one, the findings are bad news.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2021-04-02
  • The richest man in the world is counting down the minutes to his spacefaring debut.
    — Andrew Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 2021-07-19
  • Achieve all this and humans will have assured its own survival and become a true spacefaring civilization.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2021-10-13
  • All Access shows bend over backward to build trendy device anxiety into the spacefaring canon.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 2020-07-30
  • The spacefaring world of the game is beautiful, brightly colored, a site of awe and mystery—and absolutely depressing to the core.
    — Wired, 2019-11-06
  • 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, 2021-10-26
  • 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 , 2022-02-16
  • Lee also used this spacefaring opportunity to test a drug with the potential to simultaneously strengthen both muscle and bone.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2020-09-11
  • 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, 2022-02-11
  • Once a realm dominated by just a few spacefaring nations, the cosmos is opening up to nascent space programs around the world, to entrepreneurs and innovators, to commercial companies and even to students.
    — NBC News, 2022-04-08
  • 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, 2020-11-02
  • 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, 2021-05-09
  • There is simply no way that humanity can become a spacefaring civilization without major regulatory reform.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 2021-06-30
  • 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, 2020-08-03
  • 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, 2021-07-21
  • 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, 2020-09-11
  • 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, 2022-01-06

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