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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
space shuttle
noun
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▪ A glorious bright turquoise liquid jersey pantsuit is the ultimate garb for travel by space shuttle.
▪ Astronauts re-launch stranded satellite Astronauts on the space shuttle have sent a stranded satellite back into orbit.
▪ Further missions to Skylab were planned for the space shuttle which was starting its development at the time.
▪ I realised what it was: a space shuttle entering the atmosphere on its final run-in to earth.
▪ Mark told of an acquaintance who was honored to greet the returning space shuttle astronauts.
▪ The space shuttle uses specially designed ceramic tiles with very high thermal resistances to prevent conduction during re-entry.
▪ The system devised for the space shuttle is much more sophisticated and can be used by both male and female astronauts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
space shuttle

space shuttle \space" shut`tle\, n. a reusable vehicle that can carry people or objects into orbit around the earth and return to be used again for subsequent trips; -- distinguished from rockets that are used only once. The present (1997) American space shuttle is a manned vehicle, having an external fuel tank that is expendable and not re-used.

Wiktionary
space shuttle

n. 1 Any vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between the Earth's surface and outer space carrying people or cargo. 2 Any vehicle capable of repeatedly travelling between destinations in outer space carrying people or cargo.

WordNet
space shuttle

n. a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere

Wikipedia
Space Shuttle (pinball)

Space Shuttle (full title: Space Shuttle: Pinball Adventure) is a Space Shuttle themed pinball machine designed by Barry Oursler and Joe Kaminkow and produced in 1984 by WMS Industries. The machine's marketing slogan is "The fastest way to make your earnings really take off!".

Usage examples of "space shuttle".

Since the days of the US Space Shuttle, there had been ways to keep in contact with ground stations regardless of the shuttle's position above Earth, and in modern times, those methods had been considerably improved.

It should have been launched from the space shuttle in May 1986, and would have reached its objective by December 1988.

Firebee was now the silliest-looking ship since the original Space Shuttle, and too massive for interstellar capability.

It had been planned to launch Galileo from the Space Shuttle in 1986 - but the Challenger disaster ruled out that option, and it soon became clear - precisely as was done by Discovery in the book version of 2001 - that we would get no new information from Io and Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, for at least another decade.

But I do happen to have command of a space shuttle that could be placed at your disposal to solve this little inconvenience.

She was resting, rather comfortably, on a bed of springy boughs, not the flat plasfloor of the space shuttle or the dust of the cave.