space shuttle
noun
: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space
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Few embody this tumultuous journey as powerfully as Eileen Collins, NASA’s first female pilot and space shuttle commander.
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Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Boeing was one of two private companies awarded contracts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to build new space vehicles to take astronauts to low-Earth orbit after the agency’s space shuttles were retired.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
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In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, the eminent physicist Richard Feynman was called in to find out what had gone wrong.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
But Crew Dragon, partially funded by nearly $5 billion of NASA money to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS in the wake of the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011, brings a whole new angle to such missions.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
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Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Boeing was one of two private companies awarded contracts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to build new space vehicles to take astronauts to low-Earth orbit after the agency’s space shuttles were retired.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
Introduction By Gregory Barber Contributing Writer September 20, 2024
geometry mathematics symmetry All topics
In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, the eminent physicist Richard Feynman was called in to find out what had gone wrong.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
But Crew Dragon, partially funded by nearly $5 billion of NASA money to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS in the wake of the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011, brings a whole new angle to such missions.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Space shuttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20shuttle. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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