Definition of space shuttle in US English:
space shuttle
nounˈspā(s) ˌSHədlˈspeɪ(s) ˌʃədl
A rocket-launched spacecraft, able to land like an unpowered aircraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yesterday afternoon he ventured outside the space shuttle Atlantis orbiting 100 miles above the Earth.
- The death of the seven astronauts aboard the Challenger space shuttle recently made headline news in the UK.
- Trip the master switch and a complex series of events eventually leads to the blast off of the space shuttle.
- By sheer good luck and brilliant timing, Lee was able to watch the space shuttle Discovery launched while he was there.
- In 1984, the USA space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth after its maiden flight.
- In 1990 the space shuttle recovered an old satellite and brought it back to earth.
- After a two-and-a-half year hiatus, America has a space shuttle back in orbit.
- Today, the weight of a space shuttle at launch is approximately 95 percent fuel.
- The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to return to Earth early this morning.
- The same rocket fuel that helps launch the space shuttle has been used to save lives by destroying land mines.
- The decision to build the space shuttle, and to do so as cheaply as possible, led to many of the problems we now face.
- My next day was spent on the Indian river just across from where the space shuttle leaves from its launching pad.
- The next big step in our effort to conquer space was the launch of the space shuttle in 1981.
- Pilot astronauts have primary responsibility for guiding the space shuttle safely to and from orbit.
- The whole world watched, as the orbiting space shuttle released the Moonlander module.
- Neither the space shuttle nor conventional rockets are up to this task.
- Hubble was launched and placed into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery in April 1990.
- NASA became involved in 1994, when the space shuttle Endeavour recorded radar images of the earth.
- Nasa decided to leave space shuttle Discovery on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- This photo was taken out the window of the space shuttle while in orbit.