A town in central Wyoming

Usage examples of lander.

We know that once the Landers were on the ground, they came together, kinda merged into larger Amalgam Creatures.

A slice of hull running almost nose to tail had been cut away, exposing housing, cargo space, docking for a Lander now destroyed, thruster plates, and the hyperdrive motor housing.

Carl Sagan and Hal Mazursky, the superbrain, bit their lips, and white-haired Jim Martin crossed his fingers and gave the signal to detach the small lander from the bigger orbiter which had brought it safely across so many millions of miles.

By the time the landers and tenar had slowed and reoriented their weapons arrays onto the head it had risen up until halfway out of the water.

This sort of difference has been noted before in the saucers, called tenar by the Posleen, and in weapons design up to the design of the landers.

Their two largest landers could hoist a thousand tonnes from surface to orbit.

I called Mark Lander to see if he could send anyone our way before he left for France but his two-year-old was screaming like a banshee because she snuck a gob of wasabi out of his take-out sushi tray.

The commander of our lander on Wolfbane told me that nuke missed you by the thinnest of hairs.

Rick stowed the probe in the equipment bay and followed the two women into the lander, but it had even less room than the command module so he stayed in the tunnel, feeling a bit disoriented as he looked down from above on the angular instrument panel and flight controls.

Walking across the soggy ash, Longo noted shadowy figures standing guard at the foot of the landers.

Lander, and you got the misbegotten notion in your head to make such an unlawful sword, would you not keep its existence a secret?

The lander, suspended beneath its blue parafoil, had come bellying down out of the sky, crashing through the trees with abandon, and had left a clear trail of its glide-down in snapped trunks, crushed branches and ripped-up bits of parafoil.

When we reach the periapsis at seventeen-hundred hours, Landers One and Two will be launched.

Until, she noted, his lander departed the peripatetic vessel to alight at Caria Spaceport.

The other men had retired to another room where they had immediately begun to play cards, watched by two silent dark landers The dark landers had looked Andris over very carefully when he arrived, and he had studied them with equal interest, but Thrid had not bothered to introduce them.