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• n  badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
• n  public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
• n  bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
• v  travel back and forth between two points

• Simulated launch, real deathNASA officials had one word for the simulated launch of the space shuttle at Cape Canaveral last week: "Super!" Then disaster struck.
• Images of the crew, the mission and the aftermath of the ill-fated flight of the space shuttle Columbia.
• ELEVONS The rear aps that control the shuttles pitch during re-entry will be closely studied.

• shuttlecock
• bird
• birdie

News & Articles

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• Business Brief: Airport Shuttle of St. Augustine adds vans
  Airport Shuttle of St. Augustine announced a new fleet of 2013 vans. All are GPS monitored for speed, promptness and driving habits. The drivers are trained in customer service, have background screens and a dress code. The new vans are nonsmoking.
  June 16, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
• Space Shuttle astronaut delivers out of this world presentation to students at St. Mark School in Bristol
  BRISTOL BOROUGH - It was a poignant final landing in July 2011 for the Space Shuttle Atlantis because it signaled the end of NASA’s space shuttle program. But ship commander, Capt. Chris Ferguson, still has his head in the stars with a new career at Boeing in Philadelphia, where new spaceships with longer reaches into the universe are making their way from the drawing board to the assembly line.
  June 15, 2013 - Bristol Pilot
• Free shuttle from Midtown Crossing to CWS
  Midtown Crossing will offer a free shuttle from the shopping center to the College World Series. Fans can hop aboard the shuttle at 31st Avenue and Farnam Street, near the Metro bus stop, and be dropped off at the CenturyLink...
  June 13, 2013 - Omaha World-Herald

Quotes

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• Pat Riley in The Associated Press
  I think it will be equivalent to a space shuttle launch,Riley said back in May, shortly after the season ended and the Heat summer of 2010 began. "Everybody who's covering the day it's going to get launched, you never know it is until they...
• Charles Bolden in New York Times
  Aaron provided the critical and calm guidance needed at the Johnson Space Center to successfully recover from the Challenger accident and return the space shuttle to flight,Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., the administrator of NASA, said in a...
• Gregory Chamitoff in Newsday
  We had a very successful shuttle mission, with the Japanese module attached. It's a very big facility now,Chamitoff told German President Horst Kohler on Friday during a call between the space station's three-man crew and German officials.