Sentence examples for space shuttle pilot from inspiring English sources

Ms. Shipman's boyfriend was a former space shuttle pilot, William A. Oefelein.

The space shuttle pilot at the center of a love triangle that included a former astronaut who now faces charges of attempted kidnapping is leaving NASA.

Lt Col Eileen Collins was the first woman ever selected to be a space shuttle pilot and the first to command one.

The prototype might be Mark Kelly, 55, the former space shuttle pilot and naval aviator who is married to former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

PAGE 10 The Nice Astronaut There is a consensus opinion about Col. Eileen M. Collins, the first female space shuttle pilot, who is scheduled next month to be the commander of the first shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Other Information on the Web: Lt. Col. Eileen M. Collins, First Woman Shuttle Commander (//quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/collins.html) is a biography and RealAudio interview with Col. Collins, the first woman ever selected to be a space shuttle pilot, from NASA's Female Frontiers series.

The undocking was unusual, however, in that the spacecraft was to pass along Kristall in order to obtain photographs of the APAS to assist in the training of space shuttle pilots.

I wonder if tiny, mitochonrial space shuttles, piloted by amoebas, dream of one day landing on Steve Rattner's forehead?

The Space Shuttle has a nominal "pilot" on board, but the computer does all the real flying: rocket-propelled vehicles move too fast for human eye or hand.

1995 Eileen Collins became the first women to pilot a space shuttle (night takeoff and night landing) and returned as the pilot on another mission.

Col. C. Gordon Fullerton, an astronaut who performed the first flight test of a space shuttle in 1977, then piloted two shuttle missions — including one in which an engine failed shortly after takeoff — died on Wednesday in Lancaster, Calif.