Sentence examples for shuttle craft from inspiring English sources

Born in space (well, a shuttle craft), Kirk is destined to return to its embracing darkness.

Ripley escapes the exploding Nostromo in the shuttle craft Narcissus only to realise that a xenomorph is in there too, hiding away and seemingly watching her.

It shreds their shuttle craft and the telescope, leaving them floating in space several hundred miles above Earth, with only each other for company and a rapidly diminishing supply of oxygen.

Combat is exciting, as are the occasional sequences in which you must pilot an alien shuttle craft, although the game does begin to feel a bit repetitive toward the end.

Ever since the writers of Star Trek chose, as an economy measure, to have their characters beam down to the surfaces of planets using a cheap special-effects trick, rather than going to the expense of mocking up and filming a shuttle craft, scientists and sci-fi nuts have been fascinated by the idea of teleportation.Pure fantasy, of course.

Dr. Howard E. McCurdy, a historian at American University in Washington who specializes in space issues, said that even decades ago, visionaries who thought of space stations also imagined reusable shuttle craft that would ferry crews and logistics between the outpost and the Earth.

Modern aerospace shuttles and craft are subjected to super high temperatures, that have variation in two or three directions, which need to introduce new materials that can stand with such applications.

NASA's emergency plan to use the International Space Station as a safe haven for shuttle astronauts whose craft cannot safely return to earth would carry a high risk of failure if it were ever tried, according to internal space agency documents.

Héctor Bellerín was bold and full of craft shuttling up and down the right flank.

But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft.

The latter chose North American Rockwell (later Rockwell International) as prime contractor for the shuttle orbiter, while the craft's orbital maneuvering engine system and heat-resistant ceramic tiles were furnished by McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, respectively.