How to Use space shuttle in a Sentence

space shuttle

noun

• When the hostages came home from Iran, on the space shuttle.
  — Kathy Cichon, Elgin Courier-News, 22 June 2018
• The loss of the space shuttle was a wrenching tragedy for NASA, the nation, and the world.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2023
• The rocket ship is your body and your hands are the space shuttle.
  — Dave Melton, Post-Tribune, 23 June 2018
• No, this is not the plot of a kitschy sci-fi film where the space shuttles make a comeback.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
• Two of the engines were a part of the very last space shuttle mission in 2011.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• That toy space shuttle does make a noise at some point.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 26 May 2018
• The vehicle’s wings aren’t as big as the space shuttle’s.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• Now Fredo Spanos needs a space shuttle to get near them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2019
• But Musk isn't the only one working on a space shuttle.
  — Fox News, 12 Oct. 2019
• By the time the space shuttle flew for the first time in 1981, NASA was itching to put it to use building a space station.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• Both have flown to space aboard the space shuttle and Russia's Soyuz crew ferry ship.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 5 May 2024
• Jones spent 11 years with NASA and flew on space shuttle missions.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• In 1998, John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, took a piece of the fabric on his flight aboard the space shuttle.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2021
• Beavis and Butt-Head excel at it and are asked to join the space shuttle mission in a PR move.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 June 2022
• In 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle.
  — National Geographic, 23 July 2019
• The sightseeing from the space shuttle would be pretty hard to beat.
  — Phoebe Neidl, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
• When the space shuttle blasts off, two-thirds of its fuel is consumed in the first 20 minutes of flight.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2019
• At the time the Hubble Space Telescope was still five years away from launching on a space shuttle.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2022
• My son sat in church the next day with his legs dangling off the pew clutching his small space shuttle toy.
  — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al.com, 23 July 2019
• The engines used in the core stage of the Space Launch System are repurposed main engines from the space shuttle.
  — Christopher Cokinos, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2022
• The industry also built parts of the space shuttle fleet.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
• Our space shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• Up goes the volume to space shuttle levels, the strobe machines switch to double-time.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 25 July 2022
• Hernández returned to Earth on the space shuttle and touched down on solid ground.
  — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
• The first commercial space shuttle sends loony Ted and his former girlfriend on a trip to the moon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• For more than eight years since the last space shuttle flight, no person has launched to orbit from the United States.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
• The plan is for astronauts to take the space shuttle Orion to the Gateway, then shuttle back and forth to the surface of the moon from there.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• The space shuttle program was launched following the Apollo-era mission to land on the moon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• More than a decade after the last space shuttle took flight, NASA’s almost ready to launch a rocket once again.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• The vehicles measure about 29 feet (9 meters) long, roughly one-quarter the length of one of NASA's space shuttle orbiters.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2025