Sentence examples for launch crew from inspiring English sources

The change would reduce the manpower necessary to operate them, enabling a single launch crew to command as many as fifty missiles.

Despite public assurances that everything was fully under control, in the winter of 1964, while "Dr. Strangelove" was playing in theatres and being condemned as Soviet propaganda, there was nothing to prevent an American bomber crew or missile launch crew from using their weapons against the Soviets.

Momo's rocket made it to roughly 20 km (12 miles) above the ground, when the launch crew lost contact and triggered the emergency engine shutdown.

Ninety-one missile launch crew members at Malmstrom have thus far been implicated in the cheating scandal, including more than 40 who face disciplinary action that may include dismissal.

It's actually amazing how similar the EES is to the Terra-Nova ZipRider zipline system used at Royal Gorge to quickly ferry tourists from one side of the deep crevasse to the other, which I rode to see what the experience might be like for an astronaut or launch crew.

Possibly, from the potential sighting of the American fighter by the missile's launch crew, the rocket was quickly lowered from a near launch-ready 85° elevation to 30°.

Though those problems didn't put the astronauts in danger, the rocket that broke is used to launch crew-carrying spacecraft, so the Russian space agency temporarily called off all launched while an investigation was undertaken.

Launch crews were protected in similarly constructed underground bunkers nearby.

In recent tests launch crews did not know when the target missile was to be launched, although they knew they were in a "period of interest".

The Air Force's early intercontinental ballistic missiles — its Atlases, Titans, and Titan IIs — were overseen by launch crews that lived in underground control centers near the silos.

For instance, the GSLV Mark III rocket will need to be able to launch crewed spacecraft, which are much heavier than the satellites the rocket is designed to carry, he says.