space shuttle
noun
: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space
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Duke, one of only four surviving men who walked on the moon, joined fellow astronaut Nicole Stott, a veteran of multiple space shuttle flights, at a ceremony at the KSC Visitor Complex, to receive a replica of the Athena lander.
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
Insider threats have been around for a long time: the CIA mole toiling quietly in the Soviet government office, the Boeing engineer who secretly ferried information about the space shuttle program to the Chinese government.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
The space shuttle flight program came to a close on July 21, 2011, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
Installed during the penultimate flight of the space shuttle in May 2011, the AMS is a particle physics experiment designed to measure antimatter in cosmic rays in the pursuit of learning more about mysterious dark matter.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
Insider threats have been around for a long time: the CIA mole toiling quietly in the Soviet government office, the Boeing engineer who secretly ferried information about the space shuttle program to the Chinese government.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
The space shuttle flight program came to a close on July 21, 2011, when Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
Installed during the penultimate flight of the space shuttle in May 2011, the AMS is a particle physics experiment designed to measure antimatter in cosmic rays in the pursuit of learning more about mysterious dark matter.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Space shuttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20shuttle. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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