Sentences with phrase «blasted off aboard»
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.
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled to blast off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on 16 April.
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Galileo blasted off on its circuitous journey aboard the shuttle Atlantis on 18 October 1989.
Update: NASA's Kepler mission successfully blasted off on Friday, 6 March aboard a Delta II rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2250 EST (0350 GMT on Saturday).