rendezvous
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Having withdrawn from an England Under-21s camp, a secret rendezvous to meet US Soccer officials was instead plastered all over social media and he was courted with NBA tickets and trips to Florida.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Once Orion completes initial system checks, it will attempt rendezvous and docking operations for the first time with test versions of lunar landers being developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
The primary goals of the trip include testing the abilities of NASA's Orion spacecraft, as well as a rendezvous with lunar landers developed by the private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Discovery is known for flying more miles in space than any other shuttle orbiter, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit and making an early rendezvous with Russia’s Mir space station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The plan was for Walter, Kathrada, and Duma Nokwe to meet me at a secret rendezvous in Soweto and bring me my credentials for the trip.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
On the three-day mission, he and crew mate John Young, a spaceflight veteran, established a new orbital altitude record and rendezvoused with two unmanned Agena target vehicles.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2021
A few miles offshore, in the Malacca Strait, each rendezvoused with a second, empty tanker that had pulled alongside.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2020
Instead of getting together in person, they rendezvoused in front of their respective laptop screens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
“Fifty years ago … we landed, explored, got back up again, rendezvoused, came back. That’s 50 years of non-progress,” Aldrin groused earlier this month during his anniversary bash near Los Angeles.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2019
It was a natural landmark where campers often rendezvoused on hunting expeditions, but now there was nobody around.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
The crew will then spend a little less than a full day in orbit before rendezvousing with the International Space Station.
From The Verge ● Oct. 29, 2021
We had planned to meet at the Nice airport, but after a flight delay, I ended up rendezvousing with them in Antibes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2018
He stated that he was arrested as he was rendezvousing with a 35-year-old former North Korean solider, who was giving him a USB stick and camera containing military secrets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
Bowie reportedly wrote this song after seeing a couple rendezvousing under the Berlin Wall and imagining their story.
From Time ● Jan. 11, 2016
This unexpected event made all further proceedings, in the military way, quite unnecessary; and the war-canoes, instead of rendezvousing at Oparre, were ordered home to their respective districts.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
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