Space Shuttle Definition

noun
A manned, airplanelike spacecraft designed for shuttling back and forth, as between the earth and a space station, transporting personnel and equipment.
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pronoun

A space transportation system developed by NASA consisting of a reusable winged orbiter, a set of recoverable booster rockets, and a fuel tank.

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The reusable winged orbiter itself.
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Noun

Singular:
space shuttle
Plural:
space-shuttles

Space Shuttle Sentence Examples

  • American Bonnie, 57, was one of the scientists who worked on the first space shuttle.

  • Space shuttle makes safe landing The space shuttle has landed safely back on Earth.

  • Twenty years later Columbia took off on the first space shuttle flight.

  • One was seeing the space shuttle fly over my school, the other was seeing the Challenger disaster on Newsround.

  • The rod strained against the surreal backdrop of the space shuttle launch pads.

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