Definition of Shuttle

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Shuttle

An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

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Shuttle Quotations

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
Sally Ride

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
Sally Ride

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
Sally Ride

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
Sally Ride

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally Ride

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
Sally Ride

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.
John Sexton

Every shuttle mission's been successful.
Christa McAuliffe

Shuttle Translations

shuttle in German is pendeln, Pendelverkehr, Weberschiffchen
shuttle in Swedish is skottspole

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