Sentences with phrase «spent rocket boosters»

One was that the location had to be on the coast, over the ocean, so falling debris or spent rocket boosters would not drop on inhabited places during ascent.

Since the space age began, the orbital realm has become increasingly littered with the detritus of skyward human striving — spent rocket boosters, dead satellites, stray pieces of hardware.

Not exact matches

Just before dinner, at dusk, he ran 2,000 meters five times, with three minutes» rest between runs, each run conducted at exactly a 4:20 mile pace, with different partners each time, the rabbits falling away from him like spent boosters from a rocket ship.