How to Use space shuttle in a Sentence

space shuttle

noun
  • The toilet on the space shuttle did break from time to time.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Forty years ago, a space shuttle exploded.
    — Harvey Young, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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 sightseeing from the space shuttle would be pretty hard to beat.
    — Phoebe Neidl, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Mriya wasn’t easy to fly, especially with a space shuttle strapped to its back.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Hernández returned to Earth on the space shuttle and touched down on solid ground.
    — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Up goes the volume to space shuttle levels, the strobe machines switch to double-time.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 25 July 2022
  • Both have flown to space aboard the space shuttle and Russia's Soyuz crew ferry ship.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 5 May 2024
  • Two of the engines were a part of the very last space shuttle mission in 2011.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Parts of the twin solid rocket boosters also flew on space shuttle missions.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The first commercial space shuttle sends loony Ted and his former girlfriend on a trip to the moon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • One lost bag contained a custom Nikon camera designed for the space shuttle.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Sadly, Challenger didn't remain the lone space shuttle tragedy.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Her figure stands alongside Ride's next to a Lego version of the space shuttle.
    — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The engine has flown in space 19 times before on three different space shuttles.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, that's a hard pass, and the whole trip ends with Sue giving birth in a space shuttle escape back to Earth.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 27 July 2025
  • Ride spent six days in orbit on the space shuttle Challenger and became a national hero.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 June 2026
  • How does the Tenacity spaceplane compare to the space shuttle?
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
  • What happened to the space shuttle Columbia?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The space shuttle program was launched following the Apollo-era mission to land on the moon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • In other words, trust was the layer that held the entire space shuttle program together.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Jones spent 11 years with NASA and flew on space shuttle missions.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Cornyn later said that Duffy approved sending a space shuttle to Houston.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The loss of the space shuttle was a wrenching tragedy for NASA, the nation, and the world.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2023

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