The phrase "a shuttle crew" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of individuals responsible for operating a shuttle, such as in space travel or transportation services.
Example: "The shuttle crew prepared for the launch, ensuring all systems were functioning properly."
Alternatives: "a transport team" or "a flight crew."
Usually, a shuttle crew trains six months to a year for a mission.
Critics should remember that the Hubble telescope also experienced technical difficulties, cost overruns and a mistake by a manufacturer that created a devastating optical problem until a shuttle crew could repair it.
The astronauts will take the Discovery to an orbit 380 miles above Earth, the highest altitude ever attained by a shuttle crew and close to the limit, given the heavy payload.
Other walls have photographs of Eileen M. Collins, the first woman to command a shuttle crew, and William M. Shepherd, the American commander on board the international space station.
Installing Destiny will be one of the most difficult missions ever undertaken by a shuttle crew, involving repositioning a docking port, maneuvering the cargo from the cramped cargo bay and conducting three spacewalks to hook up everything.
During that 10-day mission in 1999, Colonel Husband was the pilot of the space shuttle Discovery in the first mission by a shuttle crew to dock with the international space station.
Unexpectedly, a space shuttle crew flew through an aurora sown by a solar flare in 1985, and the astronauts took videos of gigantic arcs of light undulating over the Pacific.
She was the first Indian-American to fly on a space shuttle crew and traveled a total of roughly 6.5 million miles in space.
The mission, the fourth and final shuttle flight to the station this year, will include at least three space walks to link the Columbus module to the Harmony connection module installed last month by a previous shuttle crew, and to remove a large nitrogen tank.
Longman's heroes are as multicultural as a space shuttle crew and, through their diversity, an emblem of the American pluralism the terrorists wished to destroy.
After confirming the attachment of Zvezda to the station and testing the airtight seal between components during the next three days, computers in the new module are to assume control over the entire complex as it awaits a space shuttle crew, due in early September, to complete the matchup.
