lunar

Example Sentences

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There have been countless other important space-related milestones since Apollo 17, our last moon visit, but what’s more dramatic than bouncing around in one-sixth of Earth’s gravity and smacking golf balls between lunar craters?

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

"With the date we launched at, the orbital mechanics were such that... on the end of the lunar flyby, the crew witnessed an eclipse," Gibbons said.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

But the smoothness of this mission - from launch to lunar flyby - has shifted the probability in the right direction.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Scott-Heron’s lunar criticism is not so much concerned with the otherworldly as a space for imagining the earthly impossible, but for assembling earthly sites of decolonization and liberation.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

But I’m so thankful to be alive right now, he could take credit for the faked lunar landings and I wouldn’t care.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman