Sentence examples for On liftoff from inspiring English sources

As the investigation into the cause of the Columbia accident continued today, an early manager of the shuttle program testified at a hearing in Houston that it should have been clear that the front edges of the wing could not withstand the hit that the Columbia apparently took on liftoff.

The Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned on liftoff.

Although everyone's focus on liftoff, it's really the path of interest rates thereafter that matters.

Analysts on the ground will study the pictures for signs of damage from debris on liftoff.

While for the DC cases, the influence on liftoff was minimal.

(The accident that destroyed the Challenger on liftoff in 1986 was caused by a faulty seal in its rocket booster).

Three, two, one... liftoff on the trailer for Hidden Figures, Theodore Melfi's biopic of the black female mathematicians whose work at Nasa helped the US win the space race.

A humanoid dextrous robot — at least the top half — already exists: Robonaut 2, developed by NASA and General Motors, is packed on the shuttle Discovery, scheduled for liftoff on Wednesday.

NASA managers cleared the shuttle Endeavour for liftoff on March 11 to begin a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.

Bill Dudley on December liftoff: "I fully agree with the Chair.

An experimental and computational investigation on the liftoff characteristics of laminar partially premixed flames (PPFs) under normal (1-g) and microgravity (μ-g) conditions is presented.