Terran
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His company, Terran, is testing a machine to build 3D-printed homes out of dirt and clay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"It was a lot better to just put those resources into Terran R because that's going to be a way-more-profitable way to allocate the team that we have," Ellis said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 17, 2023
At 110 feet tall, Terran 1 fell into this “small launch” category, and is planned as a precursor for a much larger, reusable launcher, Terran R, which the company hopes to begin testing soon.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The company says it has a host of customers, including NASA, waiting for launches on its Terran 1 rocket.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2023
Only the strangeness of it, to me a Terran, and the strangeness of seeing the flash of my friend’s spirit in this grim, fierce, provincial boy, made me dumb for a while.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Like asking Terrans why all our vehicles must go so fast; we answer “Why not?”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Terrans tend to feel they’ve got to get ahead, make progress.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Be assured, Jacob, that I have nothing to fear from any childish mechanisms your Terrans can contrive!"
From The Reluctant Weapon by Myers, Howard L.
In the twenty odd years that Terrans and Rumi had occupied different halves of the same planet, the number of men who had learned the Rumi language wouldn't have filled a small room.
From Narakan Rifles, About Face! by Smith, Jan
Father, the Terrans call me a wise doctor, a man of healing.
From The Planet Savers by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
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