Crippen
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The last to earn the decoration was Robert Crippen, who served as the pilot for the first Space Shuttle flight.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023
Palmer Crippen, a horticulturist at the nearby Mounts Botanical Garden, began studying the painting in mid-October, preparing to show how Mr. Stella’s shapes and colors relate to real-life tropical plants and flowers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
But Gordon Aspden KC used questions from the trial of Dr Crippen in 1910 to show she never left the flat alive.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2022
Crippen and his classmates received 10 months of training, with all equipment needed for iOS development provided.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Then my old friend John Young, along with Bob Crippen, made the first flight of a strange new machine, the Space Shuttle.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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