Sentence examples for shuttle blasts off from inspiring English sources

Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Interactive Feature Mission to the Moon Related Shuttle Blasts Off for Space Station (February 9 , 2010 Times Topics: Apollo Program Times Topics Human Spaceflight Multimedia Noww, the Obama administration has joined the quest to keep humans flying in space.

LAST week all eyes were on the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, as NASA's space shuttle blasted off on its final mission (see article).

When someone delivered the latest issue of a Space Coast tourism guide to Ms. Mulberry's shop recently, she brightened to see the cover photo: a shuttle blasting off.

Last month, the unmanned successor to the space shuttle blasted off from Florida on its debut mission but attracted little public notice because no one knew where it was going or what it was doing.

But his tears were not for the end of a 30-year era, when the shuttle blasted off in 1981.

The older generations world-wide will tell children what it was like to see a Shuttle blast off.

On 4 July 2006, the space Shuttle Endeavour, one of the three remaining Shuttles, blasted off from Cape Canaveral to complete a successful 13-day mission in space.

I remember the thrill of the first shuttles blasting off, how teachers would wheel a TV into the classroom so we could all watch.

Mr. Frutkin implied that it was apparent from the discus sions that the Russians were directing their space program on a course parallel to that of the United States that is, developing large earth‐orbiting stations serviced by a shuttle that blasts off like a rocket and lands like an airplane.

30 years ago today the Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off on the first shuttle mission.

A four-month hiatus in space shuttle flights ended today when the shuttle Atlantis blasted off into a blue Florida sky on a mission to expand the International Space Station.