space shuttle

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In practice, however, the space-shuttle program was never routine, reliable or cheap.
但在实践中，航天飞机项目从未实现常规、可靠或廉价的目标。
THE 135th, and final, space-shuttle mission took off successfully from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 8th.
7月8日，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角的肯尼迪航天中心，太空梭肩负第135次、也是最后一次太空任务顺利启程。
He introduced them to DeBakey and Noon and they began work on an "axial flow" space-shuttle pump which contains a screw-like propeller sealed in a pipe.
将这三位工程师介绍给德贝基和农之后，他们就开始了对太空船“轴向涡流”泵的研究。这种泵的管道里有一个带有螺纹的转轴。

The largest object ever put into space -- the International Space Station -- could not have been built without the shuttle program.
On March twenty-second, NASA again ordered the astronauts on the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of another piece of debris from a rocket.

It marks the end of America's space-shuttle programme, whose last mission is planned to launch on July 8th (see article, article).
ECONOMIST: Inner space is useful. Outer space is history
Chinese journalists were not allowed into the Kennedy Space Center for the May 16th space-shuttle launch as the result of a little-noticed provision in the federal budget approved by Congress in April.
FORBES: Chinese Journalists Barred from Shuttle Launch

a vehicle in which people travel into space and back again, sometimes carrying a satellite or other equipment into orbit (= a curved path through space)

A space shuttle or a shuttle is a spacecraft that is designed to travel into space and back to earth several times.