space shuttle
noun
: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space
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Schiff was Toby Ziegler, the cranky Communications Director, who is often seen as Bartlet’s liberal conscious and author of his major speeches, before he is fired from the administration in later seasons for leaking classified information about a secret space shuttle.
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Peter White, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
Officials from the city and the Columbia Memorial hope the space shuttle will continue to draw attention and lead to more visitors.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Much of the boosters’ engineering hails from the space shuttle program, and in some cases parts of their hardware actually flew on shuttle missions.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
The space agency, after all, remains haunted by two past disasters, the loss of space shuttles Columbia and Challenger and their crews.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
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Peter White, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
Officials from the city and the Columbia Memorial hope the space shuttle will continue to draw attention and lead to more visitors.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Much of the boosters’ engineering hails from the space shuttle program, and in some cases parts of their hardware actually flew on shuttle missions.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
The space agency, after all, remains haunted by two past disasters, the loss of space shuttles Columbia and Challenger and their crews.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Space shuttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20shuttle. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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