space shuttle
space shuttle
Definition
☆ space shuttle
noun
a manned, airplanelike spacecraft designed for shuttling back and forth, as between the earth and a space station, transporting personnel and equipment
space shuttle
Usage Examples
Preposition: into
- sun: Fly my space shuttle into the sun on my 105th birthday.
Converse of object
- replace: Bucky tube elevators could reach outer space, thereby replacing cumbersome space shuttles.
- see: One was seeing the space shuttle fly over my school, the other was seeing the Challenger disaster on Newsround.
Adjective modifier
- first: American Bonnie, 57, was one of the scientists who worked on the first space shuttle.
- American: An American space shuttle has crashed, killing all the crew, and this flag is lowered in sympathy.
Modifies a noun
- mission: Twenty flights, which include 16 space shuttle missions, have already occurred in the ISS era.
- disaster: The second example concerns the Challenger space shuttle disaster in the ' 80s.
- flight: Twenty years later Columbia took off on the first space shuttle flight.
- launch: The rod strained against the surreal backdrop of the space shuttle launch pads.
- program: His rocket, which reached speeds of 3,500 miles per hour, was the basis of the American space shuttle program.
- image: Nasa World Map Pick a location - see the space shuttle image.
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