Sentence examples for fleet of shuttles from inspiring English sources
Among those calling for a "mixed fleet" of shuttles and expendable launchers were scientists whose missions now faced long delays because the shuttle had become the only existing means of carrying their spacecraft.
Among the spending plans in the House bill that the White House did not request -- and Mr. Lott is grumbling about -- are $600 million to repair highways and bridges, $75 million to spruce up NASA's fleet of shuttles, and $20 million to build a new Food and Drug Administration building in Los Angeles.
PAGE B1 Space Fleet Plan Is Approved The White House has approved NASA's plan to replace the nation's aging fleet of shuttles with a new generation of vehicles meant to carry humans back to the Moon and onward to Mars and beyond, aerospace experts said.
But a new fleet of shuttles to place and maintain the satellites was the costly impediment.
Back then the thought that a man like Hugo Drax could afford a fleet of shuttles was ludicrous.
But give the city credit for getting things done: This conference hall didn't exist nine months ago and a fleet of shuttles and a smiling young staff has been swarming around attendees at every moment.
With tuition and fees holding steady at $16,000 for in-state students, a fleet of shuttle buses now accommodates bargain-hunting families on campus tours.
For nearly a decade, federal immigration authorities have been stymied by a fleet of shuttle vans, similar to those that carry people to airports and the like, that they say have operated under a veil of legitimacy.
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A couple of months after Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon in 1969, von Braun and NASA advocated an ambitious sequel: a space station in Earth orbit, a fleet of space shuttles, a second space station around the Moon, a base on the Moon, a nuclear-powered shuttle to and from the Moon, and an expedition to Mars as early as the 1980's.
