The shuttle dropped a thousand meters in just seconds.
For what it's worth, our shuttles also dropped some biotoxins into the atmosphere, although I doubt that they were really necessary.
The shuttle was still dropping, still flying forward through the thickening atmosphere.
In less than three minutes now the shuttle would drop out of the sky like a stone.
The shuttle, which shimmered with light, dropped to- ward the ground.
Then almost instantly the shuttle dropped back into real space.
He was almost finished when a light started blinking on the control panel and the shuttle dropped out of warp.
The shuttle dropped into the spaceport, and the roof closed over it.
Dog food wasn't included in any of the emergency rations the shuttle was dropping out there.
The computer would handle the entry until the shuttle had dropped to the moon's stratosphere, at which point he would take over.