Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between the Earth's surface and outer space carrying people or cargo.

    Raumfähre, Weltraumfähre, (but the historic NASA Space Shuttle usually) Spaceshuttle

    многора́зовый тра́нспортный косми́ческий кора́бльmnogorázovyj tránsportnyj kosmíčeskij koráblʹ, МТККMTKK, косми́ческий челно́кkosmíčeskij čelnók

    спейс шаттлspejs šattl

  2. Any vehicle capable of repeatedly travelling between destinations in outer space carrying people or cargo.

More definitions
  • a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere

Examples

13 sentences
  1. The explosion of the space shuttle is still fresh in my memory.

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  2. The space shuttle informs us about the earth, too.

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  3. My dream is to travel in a space shuttle.

    ruМоя мечта — путешествие в космическом шаттле.

    deMein Traum ist, in einer Raumfähre zu reisen.

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  4. The astronaut had to conduct many experiments in the space shuttle.

    deDer Astronaut musste in der Raumfähre eine Menge Experimente durchführen.

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  5. The space shuttles were designed to go to a space station.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between Earth and outer space:
Русский
By meaning 1
vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between Earth and outer space:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between Earth and outer space:

Forms

plural: space shuttles
Singularspace shuttle
Pluralspace shuttles

regular

See also

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