Sentence examples for launchings of the from inspiring English sources
The first three launchings of the company's small Falcon 1 rocket failed.
For Orbital Sciences, it was second failure in eight launchings of the Taurus XL.
On previous launchings of the Shenzhou, or "divine mission," vehicles, China sent a dog, a rabbit, snails and dummy astronauts.
Following the successful launchings of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the U.S. satellite Explorer 1 in 1958, both the United States and the U.S.S.R. took an active interest in the development of international space policy.
They expect air combat patrols to secure the skies over major sporting attractions, like the World Series, as well as other big events, like launchings of the space shuttle.
In the event of nuclear war, the Zampolit officers were said to share with the captain the responsibility to authorize the launchings of the nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles from the steel tubes welded into the belly of the Soviet "boomers".
In the first place, they say, missile sales were becoming less lucrative than the launchings of American satellites that the new arrangement clears the way for.
Also Tuesday, an analysis posted on 38 North, a Web site run by the U.S.-Korea U.S.-Korea Instituteopkins University, satd that the construction of new North Korean facilities designed to support the launchings of rockets bigger than the one tested in April was making rapid progress.
"It's a setback," Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks satellites and rocket launchings, said of the North Korean launching.
Among the highlights of its quarter-century of service were the launchings of robotic probes to Venus and Jupiter, the deployment of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite, five military missions and seven flights to the Russian Mir space station.
And then there are those awe-inspiring acts of man, the launchings of space shuttles — or there were, until Friday, when the final flight erupted from the launching pad at the Kennedy Space Center.
