space shuttle

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

   Broaderspacecraft

Questions about space shuttle

What does space shuttle mean?

space shuttle means "a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere".

Is space shuttle a common word?

space shuttle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.