Sentences with phrase «shuttle blasted off»

NASA's Space Shuttle blasted off for the first time 35 years ago, and engineers and scientists from Southern Research made critical contributions to the program during a journey that spanned three decades and a half - billion miles.

Flanked by two rocket boosters and strapped to the back of a giant red fuel tank, the space shuttle blasted off.

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Galileo blasted off on its circuitous journey aboard the shuttle Atlantis on 18 October 1989.

This is Hubble's first picture of the entire nebula, taken to celebrate the anniversary of its launch — the space telescope blasted off aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

Then, space shuttle Atlantis was set to blast off Oct. 14, 2008, carrying a crew of seven astronauts to complete the mission — a journey that would have taken 11 days and extended the telescope's life until at least 2013.

ESA Euronews: 10 years of Columbus With whoops and cheers from the crew, the Shuttle Atlantis blasted off ten years ago with Europe's Columbus module on

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Onlookers crowd around their cars in the NASA causeway as they watch the US Space Shuttle Atlantis blast off into orbit from launch pad 39 - B at Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of July 12 2001.

«Never send a chimp to do a man's job» criticizes Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) as he hijacks a small shuttle from the mother ship and blasts into space to rescue an off - course chimp test pilot.