Sentence examples for the launchings from inspiring English sources

And then there are those awe-inspiring acts of man, the launchings of space shuttles — or there were, until Friday, when the final flight erupted from the launching pad at the Kennedy Space Center.

Chito Peppler of the Navy, played down the launchings and said they were short-range missiles.

In contrast, it is the launchings of disposable rockets that are routine.

Washington believes that North Korea's true purpose in conducting the launchings has been to master intercontinental ballistic missile technology.

It is still unclear who would participate in the consortium and who would pay for the launchings, officials said.

He said that the launchings, whether intended to test Pyongyang's weapons or to demonstrate its firepower, "raised tensions," said Kim Haing, a presidential spokeswoman.

"People think that leaving home to go off to school is the big trauma, but the majority of kids do fairly well adjusting to college by the end of the first month, and their parents start to adjust, too," says Laura Kastner, a therapist who is co-author of "The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting From Senior Year to College Life".

Carter sees the final scene of "Deep Throat" as the "launching moment for the entire mythology".

Following the triumph of the Vostok launchings that had put the first human in space, the Soviets adapted the Vostok so it could carry more than one crew member.

Following the successful launchings of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the U.S. satellite Explorer 1 in 1958, both the United States and the U.S.S.R. took an active interest in the development of international space policy.

For much of the previous decade, the South Korean government tried to block the balloon launchings, which pushed the activists to work clandestinely.