SPACESHUTTLE

Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was a crewed, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Its official program name was Space Transportation System, taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. It was used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope ; conducted science ...

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space shuttle

Noun

  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.


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