Sentence examples for on liftoff from inspiring English sources

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.

Analysts on the ground will study the pictures for signs of damage from debris on liftoff.

(The accident that destroyed the Challenger on liftoff in 1986 was caused by a faulty seal in its rocket booster).

"So on liftoff, it can bend and torque, and that makes it harder to keep the foam on".

The diagram marks a spot on the left wing, eerily close to where a piece of debris may have struck Columbia on liftoff.

Repeated incidents of foam hitting the orbiter on liftoff, he said, "should have been listed as something that could destroy the system".

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 humanoid dextrous robot — at least the top half — already exists: Robonaut 2, developed by NASA and General Motors, is packed on the shuttle Discovery, scheduled for liftoff on Wednesday.

NASA managers cleared the shuttle Endeavour for liftoff on March 11 to begin a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.

An experimental and computational investigation on the liftoff characteristics of laminar partially premixed flames (PPFs) under normal (1-g) and microgravity (μ-g) conditions is presented.

The finding that foam could still be a problem was borne out on the Discovery's liftoff on July 26, when a 0.9-pound piece of foam fell from the external fuel tank and narrowly missed the orbiter.