Example sentences of "returned to earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 2 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 3 | The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on April 29 following a five-day mission during which it successfully deployed the US$1,500 million Hubble Space Telescope jointly developed by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) . |
| 4 | Volkov was transferred from Soyuz TM-13 to the Mir space station , and Anatoly Artsebarsky , who had spent 144 days in space [ see p. 38219 ] , returned to earth on Soyuz . |
| 5 | One Soviet cosmonaut was transferred from Soyuz TM-13 to the Mir space station ; another , who had spent 144 days in space [ see p. 38219 ] , returned to earth on Soyuz TM-13 . |
| 6 | But Quigley was not in a mood to ask why my dad had returned to earth . |
| 7 | Deckard is employed by the police as a bounty hunter , paid to hunt down and ‘ retire ’ ( or kill ) renegade androids who have escaped from off-world planets and returned to Earth posing as humans . |