Usage of Manned and Unmanned
While manned and unmanned are still commonly used in news sources to describe spaceflights, NASA has since the early 21st century used and prescribed non-gender-specific terms, preferring such descriptors as human, piloted, and crewed for the former, and unpiloted and uncrewed for the latter.
Examples of unmanned in a Sentence
Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched 170 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more than 120 ballistic missiles and more than 30 cruise missiles in the attack, according to Hagari.
—Melissa Gaffney, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2024
Israel’s probe of the WCK attack found that operators of the unmanned aerial vehicle tracking the convoy were not made aware of its coordination plan.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
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The video demonstrates the wave-basin testing of a 43 kg (95 lb) amphibious cycloidal propeller unmanned underwater vehicle (Cyclo-UUV) developed at the Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory, Texas A&M University.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2024
The ultramarathon is marked with unique unmanned checkpoints, each of which contains a paperback book.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
The unmanned spaceship blasted off successfully from the company's base in Boca Chica, Texas, at 8:25 a.m. local time.
—Gina Sunseri, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
After a day and a half of work, the unmanned submersible returns to the Offshore Surveyor.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
With western military aid looking far from certain and artillery ammunition running low, the pressure on Ukraine’s unmanned air capacity has only grown, leaving Kyiv’s forces in an increasingly perilous position.
—Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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“Unmanned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmanned. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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