Sentence examples for in the orbiter from inspiring English sources
In addition, as occurred in the Challenger investigation, he said, the search will need to be extended "to identify all other potential failure modes and design weaknesses everywhere in the orbiter system, and engineer fixes for them".
The Discovery was originally scheduled to lift off on Feb. 12, but was delayed several times over lingering concerns over valves that regulate the flow of hydrogen gas from the main engines in the orbiter to the external fuel tank.
The space shuttle could transport satellites and other craft in the orbiter's cargo bay for deployment in space.
And in 2003 a failure in the orbiter's heat shield, damaged by debris falling from the external tank onto the shuttle as it launched, would kill the crew of Columbia STS 107 during re-entry, 16 minutes from home.
In her first flight, aboard the Endeavour in June 1993, she helped conduct experiments during what was also the maiden voyage of the Spacehab module, a 9,600-pound 9,600-pound laboratory mounted in the orbiter's pressurized.
The seven Columbia astronauts were lost because foam insulation shedding from the external tank on liftoff punched a hole in the orbiter's wing, something that NASA engineers had assumed was not possible.
Plans called for Hubble to be serviced in February 2005, but the Columbia disaster in 2003, in which the orbiter disintegrated on re-entry into the atmosphere, had wide-ranging effects on the Hubble program.
There are three DSN stations around Earth - in Spain, Australia and California - and the data gets picked up by the antenna that is more "in line" with the orbiter sending it.
In all, the orbiter was able to use the satellite for 65 of the planned 89 orbits, and could make successful use of the connection on about forty.
"I'll be leaning in toward the orbiter," he said, adding that his helmet added inches to his height.
In 2003, the orbiter camera took a picture of the Martian globe as a pink and gray marble hanging in a black sky.
