space shuttle
noun
: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space
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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.
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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
The program followed the retirement of NASA's space shuttles.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
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.
—Peter White, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
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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
The program followed the retirement of NASA's space shuttles.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
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.
—Peter White, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Space shuttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20shuttle. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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