rocketry
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rocketry
Example Sentences
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Mr. Ariosto also conducts informative interviews with Yao Song, a Chinese space entrepreneur, and Xue Suijian, a former high-ranking space official in the Chinese government, that provide glimpses into the opaque world of Chinese rocketry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Schmidt earlier this year took a controlling interest in Relativity Space, a Long Beach startup founded in 2015 with the intent to bring 3-D manufacturing to rocketry.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
He did everything he could to advertise his love of rocketry.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
On the one hand, their contributions to stunning wartime technological breakthroughs—radar, sonar, rocketry, and above all the atomic bomb—had transformed them into an intellectual clerisy, holding the keys to the nation’s future.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
In the United States the great pioneer of rocketry was Robert Hutchings Goddard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1882—the same year my dad was bom.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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