rocket

Example Sentences

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His self-made fortune, built on electric vehicles, rocket ships and artificial-intelligence ambitions, amounts to about 3% of U.S. gross domestic product today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Jeff Bezos’s space company now says it expects its New Glenn rocket to return to flight within six months, just days after a fiery setback.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Politics is about persuasion and emotion, not rocket telemetry, so it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

But these projects depend on the New Glenn rocket, and with its explosion coming shortly after a malfunction causing a satellite mission failure last month, the anomalies could disrupt NASA's tight mission schedule.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

When the great rocket designer Sergei Korolev died in 1966, Gagarin said, “I won’t feel right until I’ve taken Korolev’s ashes to the moon.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin