space shuttle
航天飞机,航天飞船,航天器,宇宙飞船
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- : any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
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If that’s the perception, the inevitable accidents will be as traumatic as those of the space shuttle were.
At the beginning of the space shuttle program, it envisioned offering seats to private citizens and started a “Spaceflight Participant” program.
The rocket would be the most powerful ever, with four RS-25 engines used by the space shuttle and two side solid rocket motor boosters taller than the Statue of Liberty.
That’s four times the capacity of the Falcon 9, three times the capacity of the space shuttle, and approaching twice the capacity of the Falcon Heavy—currently the world’s most powerful launch system.
Up in space, the crew members on board space shuttle Atlantis were sleeping.
Space Invaders had just been introduced in America, and Atari was looking for a game that would do it one better.
Her very first sculpture, a metallic chrome unicorn aptly titled “Space Oracle,” sits on a pedestal directly in front.
The first shuttle flights with two crew members used ejection seats and full pressure suits.
An unmanned rocket intended to deliver supplies to the International Space Station exploded on Tuesday.
It could have had a burn-through like Challenger Shuttle, but I would have thought that would take longer.
He got on the shuttle and over to the West side and up to 96th and across the street from where Louis lived.
Bent low over the machine, he seems absorbed in the work, his hands deftly manipulating the shuttle, his foot on the treadle.