101.   The secondary maneuvering engines are used to change orbit once the shuttle is in space -- especially when leaving orbit to reenter the atmosphere for Earth landing.

102.   The shuttle is due to dock on Saturday at the orbiting space station, where the three men will stay for eight days before making the return journey.

103.   The shuttle is due to take off Friday to link up with the station.

104.   The shuttle was so safe, so reliable, we were told, that NASA could send a teacher along to give televised science lessons from space.

105.   The shuttle was to carry two Russian cosmonauts to Mir and bring back NASA astronaut Norman Thagard and his two Russian crewmates who have been aboard Mir since March.

106.   The shuttle was to have been launched Thursday.

107.   The successive delays forced NASA to postpone the next mission, in which the shuttle Atlantis was to link up with the Russian space station Mir.

108.   The shuttle was carrying trucks from France to England.

109.   The US shuttle Discovery was to end its nine-day mission Sunday after it completed studies on the effects of shuttle exhaust and the global climate.

110.   My shuttle was slow and it allowed her to get into her rhythm.