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Go back and forth in spacecraft (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shuttle

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'go' is the definition.
(shuttling is a kind of going)

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(Other definitions for shuttle that I've seen before include "Transport regularly plying short route" , "Transport plying back and forth" , "It carries the horizontal thread in weaving" , "Weaving loom bobbin" , "Let huts (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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