How to Use space shuttle in a Sentence

space shuttle

noun

• The loss of the space shuttle was a wrenching tragedy for NASA, the nation, and the world.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The sightseeing from the space shuttle would be pretty hard to beat.
  — Phoebe Neidl, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• How does the Tenacity spaceplane compare to the space shuttle?
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
• The missions included two human spaceflights by SpaceX—the first from the U.S. since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
  — Irene Klotz, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2021
• Those have been modified over time but are based on a 45-year-old design from the space shuttle era.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• Mriya wasn’t easy to fly, especially with a space shuttle strapped to its back.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• They were repurposed from the space shuttle, and each of the engines mounted to the SLS core stage have flown to space before.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• For the next four days, the space station will be home to 11 astronauts, just shy of the record of 13 set during NASA’s space shuttle era.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• In ninth grade, Mr. Varia recalls watching a space shuttle launch on TV.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The space shuttle was a flawed program, but since the last flight in 2011, the agency hasn’t been able to send people into space on its own.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 July 2021
• At the time, the company was the prime contractor for NASA’s space shuttle program.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2023
• The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Up in space, the crew members on board space shuttle Atlantis were sleeping.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2020
• This will be the last chance for guests to see the space shuttle up close for years before Endeavour will be on view again at the space center.
  — Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• The latter starred Peter Weller in the story of a space shuttle crew thrown back in time five years to prevent the destruction of Earth.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• That spring, the space agency began test-firing the main engines left over from the space shuttle program.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2022
• Open the space shuttle hatch and extend the arm inside to begin a fun journey into outer space.
  — Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024
• The space agency, after all, remains haunted by two past disasters, the loss of space shuttles Columbia and Challenger and their crews.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024