crewed

Definitions

Examples

• The company was hoping for a crewed New Shepard flight in 2019.

• SpaceX’s Crew Dragon may have returned crewed missions to US soil, but it’s not the only vehicle NASA hopes to use to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

• In general, the idea is that the uncrewed planes may be able to do things that crewed ones cannot, and could augment their crewed companions.

• More recent steps, such as the Artemis Accords, a set of guidelines surrounding the Artemis Program for crewed exploration of the moon, are perceived as heavily tied to the US program.

• Like the company’s other major space vehicles, Starship is designed to be reusable, to lower the overall cost of spaceflight for robotic and crewed missions alike.

• Strong evidence suggests that a Russian-supplied and crewed Buk antiaircraft missile shot down MH17.

• The missile system most likely used to shoot down Malaysia Airline MH17 is common, lethal, and crewed by men with little training.