Sentence examples for shuttle means from inspiring English sources

Still, some experts say the new unease over the shuttle means that such upgrades ought to be considered as a way of eliminating the risk to astronauts.

"It has been around for decades, but the only people who cared were at NASA, because too much CO2 in a space shuttle means you die," says Matthew Eisaman, a researcher at the Palo Alto Research Centre PARCC) in California.

The decision to scrap the shuttle means that after Atlantis is grounded later this month American astronauts will have to hitch a ride to the space station from Kazakhstan aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft – at least until private sector companies such as SpaceX are deemed ready to ferry humans into low Earth orbit by about 2015.

In the 1970s and '80s, expense and an unreliable space shuttle meant that planetary missions became fewer and farther between; with more instruments and safeguards added, it drove up costs.

But retiring the shuttles means that the United States is without a vehicle to travel to space until 2015, when NASA's next launch vehicle, the Ares rocket, is expected to make its debut.

The suture retrievers needed a higher force than the suture shuttles (mean ± standard deviation: 9.8 ± 1.3 versus 11.7 ± 4 N/mm, p > 0.05).

A free shuttle bus means guests can avoid paying (from €4 a day) to park down by the beach.

On the other hand, the end of the NASA space shuttle program means the dawn of a new era of space travel -- one that may prove very lucrative to him.

There were clinically significant improvements in six-minute walk distance (mean 55.7 m, 95% CI 37.8 to 73.7) and incremental shuttle walk (mean 106.2 m, 95% CI 79.1 to 133.2).

(Ironically, the space station's demands on the shuttle fleet mean that essential repairs to the Hubble, which will require a shuttle mission, may have to be postponed).The ASCB report also casts doubt on the merits of growing crystals in space, for use in pharmaceutical research.

Long queues for trains at Glasgow Central station and longer waits for shuttle buses meant some ticket-holders missed sessions and connections.