space shuttle

noun

: a reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space

Examples of space shuttle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The agency chief flew in two jets and parachuted out of an airplane as part of NASA’s Max Power event, which featured an air show that packed in tens of thousands to the former space shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2026

Hubble, which launched in April 1990 in partnership with the European Space Agency, was serviced five times by astronauts on space shuttle missions, the most recent being in 2009. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Outer space outfits Some of the gallery’s artifacts include a space shuttle main engine, Robonaut 1A (a prototype humanoid robot), and an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit. — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026

In 2006, while facing the looming retirement of the space shuttle, NASA searched for a private alternative to resupply the International Space Station. — Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for space shuttle

• rebuttal
• cuttle
• scuttle
• shtetl
• subtle
• suttle

Kids Definition

space shuttle

noun

: a spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo between earth and space that can be used repeatedly