crewless

Reindeer, crewless, lay across the estuary at the sandspit.

Chapter 11 2010

The idea involved a cargo module, a wingless, crewless version of the shuttle, powered by the shuttle's liquid-fueled engines and clamped to the giant fuel tank and solid rocket boosters used by the shuttle.

The 1990 Augustine Commission Revisited - NASA Watch 2009

A crewless shuttle orbiter would probably carry about one third as much cargo as shuttle-C but the development costs would surely be much lower.

Downplaying Internal Doubts About Ares - NASA Watch 2009

She was redeemed by a crabber and his crew not but a year later and after a proper refit set sail for Bermuda from Miami, once again washing up crewless shy of her destination.

The Good Ship - Forgotten 2010

Forgotten had other ideas and soon washed up crewless on a lonely atoll just south of Tortuga.

The Good Ship - Forgotten 2010

And so the tactical, crewless, target seeking, "precision" missile/bomb weapons system was born.

Progress in the Despicability of Weapons Systems 2009

He thought of it sailing endlessly, crewless, a messenger of doom to any who saw it.

Adrift The Wandering Author 2007

He thought of it sailing endlessly, crewless, a messenger of doom to any who saw it.

Archive 2007-05-01 The Wandering Author 2007

I quickly proceeded past the novelty of being able to read The New York Times while most of Manhattan slept, and discovered a way of looking through the "windows" of crewless spacecraft — vessels that have seen Earth dwindle to the size of a pearl, and then a pixel, as they voyaged far beyond any place ever directly observed by human beings.

A Space in Time 2002

I quickly proceeded past the novelty of being able to read The New York Times while most of Manhattan slept, and discovered a way of looking through the "windows" of crewless spacecraft — vessels that have seen Earth dwindle to the size of a pearl, and then a pixel, as they voyaged far beyond any place ever directly observed by human beings.

A Space in Time 2002