space shuttle
noun
: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space
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Ensuring aviation safety in context of a potential space junk strike was not taken into consideration until the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, in which the spacecraft broke apart while re-entering the atmosphere.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2025
The proceedings commemorated the lives lost in NASA's three space tragedies — the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, the space shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986 and the shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
The event remembers the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
At over 320 feet tall (98 meters), New Glenn is shorter than an Apollo-era Saturn V (363 ft., or 111 m) but taller than both the space shuttle when it was fully stacked (184 ft., or 64 m) and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 (229 ft., or 70 m).
—Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2025
The proceedings commemorated the lives lost in NASA's three space tragedies — the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, the space shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986 and the shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
The event remembers the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
At over 320 feet tall (98 meters), New Glenn is shorter than an Apollo-era Saturn V (363 ft., or 111 m) but taller than both the space shuttle when it was fully stacked (184 ft., or 64 m) and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 (229 ft., or 70 m).
—Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Space shuttle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space%20shuttle. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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