'fly a rocket' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a rocket launch, such as: "The astronauts launched the rocket and flew it into space."
Right now we can design, build, test and fly a rocket motor all by ourselves and all in Mojave, which I don't think is done anywhere else on the planet".
This year, the Australians, armed with only a $2 million budget, beat a NASA team armed with $180 million and became the first to test fly a rocket powered by a "scramjet".
1.33pm GMT Flash attempts to destroy Ming's palace by flying a rocket into it.
Information needs these "ladies" to reach its destination, because "browsing the net is like flying a rocket to land on another planet", Sathi says.
Building, launching and flying a rocket to the Moon takes tremendous organisation.
The Hawthorne, California, company has already flown a rocket called Falcon 9 and a capsule called Dragon.
SpaceX, from Hawthorne, California, has already flown a rocket called Falcon 9 and a capsule called Dragon.
One rival would have skimmed through the martian atmosphere to return dust and gas samples, another would have flown a rocket plane within a kilometer of the surface to map mysterious magnetic regions, and the third would have attempted to detect biogenic gases from orbit.
SpaceX just shared some promising news for those eager to see the private space company achieve its goal of re-flying a rocket it recovered from an earlier mission: It has succeeded in running a static test firing of a recovered Falcon 9 first-stage, a key step towards actually using the rocket component again in another mission for an actual paying customer.
Knievel took issue with a "sexually charged video" in which West takes on the persona of "Evel Kanyevel" and attempts flying a rocket over a canyon.
Baumgartner says the stunt--which comes 65 years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier flying a rocket plane--will serve as both a personal challenge and as an important scientific and medical experiment.
