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Should NASA jettison the shuttle and station right away?
The space shuttle has reentered the Earth's atmosphere.
The countdown has started for the final launch of an American space shuttle.
Because of the shuttle, space flight has become an international commercial enterprise.
The CPP system was composed of computer,camera,soundproof box,shuttle box and analytical software.
For instances, three keywords, "Beijing," "space shuttle," and "iguana," are used. (See Figure 51.)
In 2005, during the first launch after the Space shuttle Columbia disaster, a shuttle was threatened by another flying menace: a vulture that smacked into the external tank during takeoff.
Once the shuttle program began, it operated more or less successfully for five years - until Jan. 28, 1986, when shortly after takeoff, the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all those aboard.
A single shuttle loom has one shuttle box on each side. In this case the filling is restricted to one color or type of yarn. This is normally denoted as a conventional loom.
Simultaneously, a mysterious piece of debris flew high into the air near the shuttle, apparently from the flame trench.
Since Americans still need access to space, the shuttle would be replaced with an updated Apollo-style orbiter.
Designed primarily to haul cargo, the Ares V booster is NASA's supply truck for the post-shuttle era.
Up to four European scientists and technicians will ride the shuttle with U.S pilots and commanders on Spacelab missions.
But they would do a lot less harm to the stratosphere than Concorde or the space shuttle, devices that were accepted by most people.
The team engineered a cascade -- really a waterfall -- of nanometers-thick materials to shuttle electrons between the visible and infrared layers.
It had been called a "success-oriented" schedule to get the space shuttle flying again, but the odyssey of "discovery" was best with various problems
An important task of the space shuttle is to launch a space telescope and place it in an orbit about 500 kilometers above the earth.
Dutton, Lindenburger and Yamazaki are making their first spaceflights. These three astronauts are the last rookies that will fly aboard the shuttle before its planned retirement.
A shuttle on the launch pad measures 184 feet (56 meters) tall from the tip of the external tank down to the aft skirts of its twin solid rocket boosters.
Low clouds kept shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven from making their much-anticipated return to Earth, and NASA vowed to bring the spacecraft down Tuesday in Florida, California or possibly even New Mexico.
If users must constantly shuttle back and forth between windows to achieve their goals, their disorientation and frustration levels will rise, they will become distracted from the task at hand, and their effectiveness and productivity will drop.
Okay, we get that the space shuttle is cool - but so are sneezing pandas and homemade macaroni and cheese, and none of them belong on a list of great cars.
The astronauts could use the space station as a safe haven in the event of major problems and rotate back to Earth aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft, eliminating the need for a shuttle rescue mission.
