Sentence examples for stage of a rocket from inspiring English sources

By 20 miles, the last pacemaker dropped away, like the booster stage of a rocket.

Small start-ups here are also developing new rocket fuels and trying to transform a discarded second stage of a rocket into a prototype moon lander.

In the park, Mutai seemed to diminish, fly away like the booster stage of a rocket, as Gebremariam tossed away his gray ski cap and opened up, his stride even more fluid than it was an hour earlier.

The South Korean government spokesman also confirmed that the latest satellite images showed all three stages of a rocket placed on the North's launching pad.

The upper-stage of a rocket is the last to fire – and is usually the smallest segment of the vehicle.

Normally, the first-stage of a rocket – the segment that gets it up off the ground – is discarded at altitude, whereupon it begins a destructive dive back through the atmosphere.

Each gear shift feels like jettisoning stages of a rocket.

The upper stage of a Proton rocket sent a telecommunications satellite into the wrong orbit on Aug. 18.

The space station will be built inside the 3rd stage of a Saturn rocket, which will orbit the earth about 270 miles out, & astronauts will travel to & from it in Apollo command modules.

On Thursday, the Endeavour had a close miss soon after it reached orbit, passing about one mile from a burned-out stage of a Delta rocket, one of thousands of pieces of space junk circling Earth.

Last March, leftover propellant caused the upper stage of a Chinese rocket to explode, spewing a cloud of ultrasmall debris particles that has the potential to damage other spacecraft and satellites.