liftoff

Discovery, which is slated for liftoff at 4: 50 p. m. EST Thursday, is due to arrive Saturday for a week-long stay.

The primary stage of a multistage rocket that provides the main thrust for launch, liftoff , and initial flight .

Former shuttle commander Charles Bolden was confirmed by the Senate less than two hours after Endeavour's liftoff.

U. S. early-warning satellites would have detected hot rocket exhaust soon after liftoff, but by then it would have been too late.

say new video provides fresh evidence of how the spacecraft may have been damaged during liftoff.

But controllers lost communication with it at 137 seconds after liftoff, when the rocket was at a height of 70 kilometers.

Engineers aborted the launch Wednesday less than eight minutes before the scheduled liftoff from the Naro Space Center south of Seoul.

With just minutes to go before liftoff, South Korean engineers postponed the launch of the country's first space-bound rocket.

Two years earlier, a rocket exploded in this launch site after liftoff and killed several people on the ground.

Coincidentally, the last time a bat perched itself on a space shuttle tank, right before liftoff, was Wakata's first flight in 1996.

Unlike the last launch attempt on April 29, when electrical problems forced a delay, Monday's liftoff occurred without any major hitches.

sleeping, unpowered, waiting for us to power it up for liftoff.

NASA delayed a Tuesday morning liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery by a day because of stormy weather at the Florida launch site.

But Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach says some shuttle watchers probably will not return for the mid-May liftoff.

Check ignition and may God's love be with you, 1, liftoff.

It's standard procedure the day after launch to check for any damage that may have occurred during liftoff.

Whooper swans take off mostly on water, but can do so on solid ground, using a short run and beating their massive wings to achieve liftoff.

To prevent this, which underwater divers call the bends, Fournier will breathe pure oxygen for two to three hours before liftoff.

And, indeed, it was nearly three hours on the tarmac before liftoff.

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Here, the shuttle is mounted on a mobile launchpad weeks before its liftoff.

Mission managers cleared the issue shortly before liftoff.

Columbia was destroyed during re-entry in 2003 because of a hole in its wing , left there by flyaway foam at liftoff .

The liftoff occurred just one month and two days shy of the 40th anniversary of the first lunar footprints.

McAuliffe was killed along with six others when the Challenger broke up shortly after liftoff .

Instead, he says that pterosaurs needed all four limbs for liftoff.

That is seen as a strong indicator liftoff is on track to proceed between April 4th and 8th, as the North has announced.

In July 2005, a large vulture hit the space shuttle Discovery? s external tank during liftoff and sadly met its demise.

But what exactly will the throngs of onlookers see at liftoff?

Mission Control destroyed the rocket 293 seconds after liftoff.

A bolt hit the rocket 36 seconds after liftoff, causing some tense moments.

Look at the RSS format in Listing 1, which uses a sample document from the NASA "Liftoff News" feed.

From liftoff to splashdown, Glenn was aloft for 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds.

It weighed 6. 5 million pounds (3 million kg) fully fueled at liftoff.

If Atlantis launches on July 8, liftoff would take place at 11: 40 a. m.

Liftoff is set for 5: 12 p. m. ET.

Simulation of wind-blown sand movement and probability density function of liftoff velocities of sand particles

Probability distribution functions for the initial liftoff velocities of saltating sand grains in air

Impact of sensor liftoff on magnetic flux leakage detection in pipelines