space shuttle
noun
: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space
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Moskowitz has reported live from rocket launches, space shuttle liftoffs and landings, suborbital spaceflight training, mountaintop observatories, and more.
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
Once the most voluminous building in the world, the VAB was previously used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for 30 years.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The duo’s flights on four different spacecraft matches a feat only achieved by Orlando’s John Young, who flew on the space shuttle, Gemini, Apollo command module and Apollo lunar module spacecraft.
—Richard Tribou, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
Once the most voluminous building in the world, the VAB was previously used to stack the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and the space shuttles that flew for 30 years.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The duo’s flights on four different spacecraft matches a feat only achieved by Orlando’s John Young, who flew on the space shuttle, Gemini, Apollo command module and Apollo lunar module spacecraft.
—Richard Tribou, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Space shuttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20shuttle. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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