The phrase "as it falls back" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is returning to a previous state or position, often after a change or movement.
Example: "The ball rolled down the hill and, as it falls back, it gathers speed."
Alternatives: "as it reverts" or "as it returns".
Currently rockets are used just once, with the first stage disintegrating as it falls back to Earth.
Investors worried that the bailout was a temporary solution to Spain's problems as it falls back into recession and suffers 24% unemployment.
And then it climaxes perfectly with archive footage of a Nasa test rocket exploding during takeoff in 1962, with the camera tracking the final flaming piece of debris as it falls back to earth.
A Russian spacecraft that broke down on its way to the International Space Station last week will burn up in a bright fireball as it falls back to Earth, according to the country's space agency.
Blue Origin recently conducted a test launch from Texas in which the rocket dubbed New Shepard performed a vertical landing, slowing its descent by relighting its engine as it fell back to Earth.
As it fell back to Earth, the RLV-TD encountered the atmosphere at five times the speed of sound.
It leapt like a hurled knife, destroying the oppressive stillness as it fell back into the river with a resounding splash.
It swerved back, hit a mound of mud and lifted off the ground, spinning around on one end before hitting Drinkwater's car as it fell back down.
Everyone who writes any kind of fiction knows how words resist the effort to make them enclose anything; the scene that's vivid and definite in imagination dies as language fails it, falls back on its default position of stereotype and received wisdom.
On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs removed Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX – news - people ) from its Americas Conviction Buy List and replaced it with McDonald's (nyse: MCD – news - people ), lifting Mickey D's stock as high as $52.10, before it fell back to close the day up 23 cents, or 0.5%, at $51.48.
Later it fell back and the farm, as well as some of the plantings, suffered.
