Sentence examples for on the next shuttle from inspiring English sources

They also performed three spacewalks to prepare the outpost for the arrival of a new module on the next shuttle flight, scheduled for February.

They also staged three spacewalks to prepare the outpost for the arrival of a new module on the next shuttle flight, in February.

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters, a NASA spokeswoman, said mission managers were considering plans to take replacement parts to the station on the next shuttle mission, scheduled to begin Saturday.

Mr. Suffredini said that only a radiator was too large to fit into any spacecraft other than the shuttle, and that piece is to fly up on the next shuttle mission in November.

The new compartment will serve as an extended docking compartment, providing needed clearance between the Russian segment's forward port and an American storage module scheduled for installation on the next shuttle mission later this year.

Three of the excursions were needed to assemble Dextre and the others to deploy experiments, examine a malfunctioning rotary joint on a truss holding solar power panels, and stow a long shuttle-inspection boom that the Discovery will retrieve and use on the next shuttle mission.

After the Columbia accident, NASA asked Boeing to improve the design of the next shuttle.

While space enthusiasts have focused on NASA's preparations for the next shuttle launching and its award of a huge contract to develop the next spaceship for human flight, a battle has erupted outside the limelight between the agency's administrator and some of his top scientific advisers.

She flew on one mission, in 2006, and was slated to be the lead Mission Control communications officer for the next shuttle trip.

We put first things first," meaning the station and preparing for the next shuttle mission.

In one hangar, technicians buzzed around the Atlantis, the next shuttle to go up.