Sentence examples for shuttle slated from inspiring English sources
Most of that money is for a new launcher to replace the space shuttle slated for retirement next year.
And with the shuttle slated to stop flying next year, whether to close that gap by extending shuttle operations is another of several major space issues confronting Obama's White House.
Some members of Congress want to extend the flying of the space shuttles, slated to be retired after three more flights.
The dismantling of the shuttle program, slated for later this year, is expected to result in the loss of 7,000 space industry jobs.
The shuttle was slated to rendezvous with Hubble in October to replace all six gyros and conduct other maintenance tasks, but problems with the Discovery shuttle have delayed the mission.
The final Endeavour launch — which could be the final space shuttle launch — was slated for April 19th but had to be moved 10 days primarily because of a scheduling conflict.
The eighteen-month-long pilot program, slated to begin in July, will require that the shuttle buses be registered and that they make stops only at two hundred designated public bus stops.
Scolese says that NASA hopes to retire the shuttle by September 2010, but that the schedule is open to revision if needed to accommodate the slated missions.
The space shuttle programme, which has claimed the lives of 14 astronauts - 11 more than the Apollo programme - is slated for retirement next year.
