Sentences with phrase «after liftoff from»

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After liftoff, the company's Dragon spacecraft separated from its Falcon 9 rocket and attached to the space station on Apr. 4.

A U.S. Airways jetliner that took off from LaGuardia Airport Thursday afternoon made an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River minutes after liftoff, and it appears all 155 people...

Moon astronauts will be three days from help, and Mars astronauts will, at best, be months away — virtually alone after liftoff.

After separating from Dragon a few minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage performed several flyback engine burns, then eventually lowered itself vertically onto a SpaceX drone ship that was stationed off the Florida cAfter separating from Dragon a few minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage performed several flyback engine burns, then eventually lowered itself vertically onto a SpaceX drone ship that was stationed off the Florida cafter liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage performed several flyback engine burns, then eventually lowered itself vertically onto a SpaceX drone ship that was stationed off the Florida coast.

The Wallops Incident Response Team completed today an initial assessment of Wallops Island, Virginia, following the catastrophic failure of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket shortly after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 28, from Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Shortly after liftoff, the rocket separated from the vehicle.

[Audio from launch: «We're ready to go with the liftoff, and we'll be back with you after Soyuz has cleared the tower.]

In human history, only one type of human spacecraft launched has occurred away from teams of engineers — lunar liftoffs — and those took place only a few days after landing had occurred.

A still from an animation shows what SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket may look like shortly after liftoff.

The Falcon Heavy rocket has three boosters, including two outer cores that landed successfully at Cape Canaveral, after breaking away from the middle center some two and a half minutes after liftoff, and the central core which failed to return safely to Earth.