Sentence examples for liftoff on from inspiring English sources

Three, two, one... liftoff on the trailer for Hidden Figures, Theodore Melfi's biopic of the black female mathematicians whose work at Nasa helped the US win the space race.

A spaceship carrying cargo bound for the International Space Station is on course despite the disintegration of one of its rocket engines shortly after liftoff on Sunday night.

No one was hurt when an unmanned rocket exploded just after liftoff on Tuesday, but more than 5,000 pounds of precious cargo bound for the International Space Station were destroyed.

Liftoff on Apollo 11.

It took a little while for the group to reach liftoff on Tuesday.

Even the reporters and broadcasters who had witnessed dozens of other launchings sounded spellbound by the liftoff on Friday.

Is that because you're looking for debris out there in the form of foam, or could a tile have shaken loose on liftoff out there?

As the investigation into the cause of the Columbia accident continued today, an early manager of the shuttle program testified at a hearing in Houston that it should have been clear that the front edges of the wing could not withstand the hit that the Columbia apparently took on liftoff.

Orbital's rocket and capsule blew up on liftoff in Virginia, on a space station resupply mission in October.

A half-hour after liftoff, right on cue, Mars Odyssey was propelled out of Earth's orbit at more than 25,000 miles per hour.

NASA's remaining orbiter, the Atlantis, is scheduled for liftoff June 28 on the shuttle program's 135th flight, the final chapter in a post-Apollo initiative that produced what is arguably the most complex, capable and costly manned rockets ever built.