Sentence examples for shuttle stack from inspiring English sources

The height of the shuttle stack on the launchpad is 56.1 metres (184.2 feet), and the shuttle orbiter itself is 37.2 metres (122.2 feet) long.

The space shuttle uses ATK's four-segment solid rocket boosters (SRBs) to do the major part of lifting the shuttle stack off the Earth.

The last piece of our shuttle stack.

At Kennedy Space Center, a former shuttle stacking bay inside the iconic Vertical Assembly Building has been gutted and equipped with SLS access platforms.

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As the "stack" (the shuttle together with the external tank and the SRBs) speeds upwards, the flame coming from the main engine and the SRBs is unexpectedly bright – brighter, it seems to me, than the sun.

On several occasions riding the Times Square-to-Grand Central shuttle, I have encountered panhandlers holding a stack of The Onion, the satirical weekly that offers free copies from many Manhattan news boxes.

Like Challenger in 1986, Columbia's fatal blow came during launch, as the vulnerable shuttle rode to orbit alongside a roaring rocket stack.

A Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo spacecraft was launched on top of a stack of boosters usually three which fired serially; the shuttle orbiter is part of what is called a parallel cluster of rockets.

"These cable trays here were stacked high with cables from the Apollo program and the shuttle program until recently.

After post-flight maintenance and preparation for the new mission, including the installation of most flight payloads, the shuttle was transferred to the Vehicle Assembly Building on July 27, and mated to the booster/tank stack.