Sentence examples for flying a rocket from inspiring English sources
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 boy on the 2012 float dreamed that he was flying a rocket.
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.
Charles Yeager, flying a rocket-powered Bell X-1 launched from the bomb bay of a B-29 Superfortress bomber, became the first human to exceed the speed of sound.
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".
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".
More than 10 years ago, even before it had flown a rocket to space successfully, SpaceX sued Boeing and Lockheed Martin in an attempt to block the formation of the United Launch Alliance, which it said was using "strong-armed tactics to demand that the Air Force grant them exclusive long-term contracts". But SpaceX was derided as an "ankle biter" by its competitors, and the lawsuit went nowhere.
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.
