Sentence examples for rocket took off from inspiring English sources

It also looked bigger than a newly built launching pad in Tongchang-ri near the country's northwestern tip, where the Unha-3 rocket took off in April.

The rocket took off, it descended, it disappeared because none of the closed-circuit TV cameras were trained on the place where the rocket actually landed.

The Falcon 9 rocket took off with a Dragon cargo capsule at 4.43pm ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, under clear conditions.

It burst into flames and four small engines were set off, and then quick as a flash, like a firework, a new-year rocket took off.

But there is still controversy about what causes them, and that will not be resolved until the gamma-ray window is clear again.On October 17th, therefore, a Russian Proton rocket took off with a window cleaner on board.

The Japanese-made Muses-A rocket took off from the Kagoshima Space Center, a small complex tucked into a rugged, sparsely populated coastal region of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's main islands.

"Oh, man, it was like a rocket taking off," Mike Boley, a Giants linebacker, remembers.

Plot its progress on a chart and it looks like a rocket taking off.

And you go " He made a noise akin to a Viking rocket taking off.

Zero, he said, was the last number in the countdown before a rocket takes off.

"Dream House," from 2010, is a deep red canvas with a scrawled house that looks almost like a rocket taking off.