Sentences with phrase «when blasting off»

Transportation costs can soar into the hundreds of millions of dollars, even when blasting off during «launch windows» — the optimal orbital alignments of Earth and Mars that roll around only every 26 months.

Not exact matches

«When John Glenn blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas rocket in 1962, he lifted the hopes of a nation.

It also means that Virgin Galactic's mission won't be completed when our first space tourism flights blast off.

The team was just about to kick off with a toast on the terrace when the fountains erupted and Glen Miller's «In the Mood» began blasting over the speakers.

When Travis Hafner blasted a mammoth walk - off home run last Friday, turning a 4 — 3 deficit into a 5 — 4 win, it was just the latest in a string of dramatic victories for a team with enough offense to make any opponent's lead a shaky one.

-- When you're in the final third, show off your moves and dribble to your heart's content — BUT when you're in your area, please just do it the old fashioned way, and quickly blast the ball out of danWhen you're in the final third, show off your moves and dribble to your heart's content — BUT when you're in your area, please just do it the old fashioned way, and quickly blast the ball out of danwhen you're in your area, please just do it the old fashioned way, and quickly blast the ball out of danger.

Brennan crossed into the Rovers penalty area and Billy Ingham's persistence paid off when NOBLE ran on to the ball and blasted it in via the post, past a ruck of defenders, to bring relief and jubilation all round.

The toys were bright plastic ones (xylophones and the little cars they can drive around in) and the tv was blasting (they did turn it off when I asked).

The gloves came way off in the mayoral race yesterday when City Council Speaker Peter Vallone blasted his Democratic rival Mark Green as an «ultra-liberal» who has «consistently attacked» city...

According to Okonjo - Iweala, «People are happy to see the symptoms being taken care of, punitive measure, you know it makes big headlines when people are hauled off to jail and the media blasts the story, which is good, there ought to be consequences and punitive actions but it's not enough.

When John Glenn blasted off in Friendship 7 in February 1962, he was provisioned with tubes of pureed beef and vegetables, applesauce and, yes, powdered envelopes of Tang.

Gluing these to roaches» backs, they observed how running bugs reacted when a quick blast knocked a leg off balance.

Massimino will need that moxie and know - how when he and his crew blast off this month from Cape Canaveral and rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope 360 miles above Earth's surface.

In 1965 when the Astrodome opened in Texas, the theme was all space: the Countdown Cafeteria, the comely «Spacette» hostesses, the team name, of course, and the spacesuited guy blasting off and soaring over the infield in a jet pack.

Vesta researchers have long focused on certain meteorites: rocks that fell to Earth after being blasted off Vesta when other asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter hit the 525 - kilometer - diameter Vesta.

The Kevlar protected their heart and their lungs and their abdominal organs when a blast would go off or they get shot and that bought them time.

They are thought to occur when the Sun's heat vaporises newly exposed ice on the comet, blasting dust off its surface.

Need to blast off when those midday work hours have you in a slump?

Whether launching off the blocks, blasting through a sprint, or settling in for a longer set, improving stability and technique are undoubtedly crucial when cutting time and increasing speed through the water.

Whenever we had to slow for a turn or pull up at a traffic light, the engine threatened to die, but when that Chevy hit the open road with the engine wide open, it felt like we were strapped to a rocketship blasting off for Planet Punani.

But who really cares about filmmaking fundamentals when the force of aggression registers off the charts, working countless fights and agreeable acts of heroism into a superbly entertaining blast of brutality.

Finally, a separate blast gauge can be utilized to pull off very powerful Mystic Artes, which regularly turn the tide of the battle when executed.

Three astronauts, named Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, find themselves in a dangerous predicament when after blasting off into space, begin having extreme rocket malfunctions.

TinyBuild's humorous platform - puzzler No Time to Explain Remastered is an absolute blast when played by yourself, but when another player joins you in couch co-op, the crazy - fun factor just goes right off the scale.

When this happens, I can turn the heat on for five minutes at full blast until I get to hot, then I turn it off for five minutes until I get too cold.

When equipped with PDK, the Cayman will, under certain conditions, coast in near total silence with the engine cut off, which tends to comes as a bit of a surprise after an extensive blast through the decibel stratosphere.

Unfortunately, the air conditioning never really blew that cold; on a couple of extremely hot days, it ran full - blast on Auto the entire time we were in the car without ever delivering really cold air; the fan noise was such that we finally got fed up with it and manually decreased the fan speed — oh, and it automatically turns on the cooled seats when you crank up the air, so you have to figure out how to shut those off (via touchscreen) to keep from feeling like you wet your pants.

My grandmother sang, and my mother blasted ballads in the car when she dropped me off at school.

The speaker isn't bad: a Verge editor who will go unnamed had Carly Rae Jepsen's «Call Me Maybe» ready in a Google Music account, and it blasted out of the slit in back of the device fairly crisply and loudly considering that we were in a large conference hall, and also bounced nicely off a table when we set it down.

When the weather gets hot, it's tempting to blast the AC nonstop, but you're better off cooling your vehicle naturally if you can.

on occasion when I need an off - season fix (BTW, arena football games are a blast to go to — I'd recommend you do so if you ever get the chance.)

Players will often times hilariously ragdoll when checked, which is fine, but in a gloves - off fight the same physics just blast away the realism.

When Zealots take about 6 - 7 shots from a handgun to weaken for a melee to kill them off for a time bonus, a player will often find it best to blast a group with a shotgun and finish off any surviving enemies in the crowd with a melee that will finish them off.

Each powerup recharges after use, so knowing when to use them gives you a tactical edge - a well - timed EMP blast can send clusters of cop cars careering off the road and crashing into nearby obstacles.

When you see a horde of guards heading your way, it's a blast to pop out of the room you're hiding in, pick off a couple of laggards at the end of the pack, and then shift across the room without anyone spotting you.

That's when Mario blasted off to the moon to fight a boss named Tatanga.

As a result of this Chaos on Deponia's narrative barely even gets off the ground until well into the game when you suddenly get a small blast of information that advances the storyline and then nothing again until the very end.

Sadly, though, the blaster is let down by some really awkward aiming, leading me to only use it when I absolutely had to for certain sections of the game, such as one mental section where you end up playing baseball by blasting off heads and defending the runner.

Remember when Duke Nukem Forever promised to be a blast from the past, but then ended up playing like a shallow knock - off of every modern shooter of the last ten years?

I'd be pissed off myself when I've worked hard on a video game for several years, made it a very well done game, and someone blasts it for the most ignorant reasons.

Online co-op would be appreciated as my friend and I had a blast when playing together, yelling and generally bickering about picking up the prepared tomato off the floor.

Nothing is worse than closing in on the home stretch, only to be blasted by a Blue Shell, then hit by lightning, then bumped off the track by other racers, and ending up going past the finish line in last place when you've been solid in 1st the entirety of the race.

Don't be left behind when this interstellar adventure blasts off.

Released last night, it's a top - down shoot - o - brawler where you can blast fools» in the face or even stealth - kill them, but that seems a waste when you can also rip off their arm and use it to beat other baddies to death.

The rifle, for instance, can switch ammo types to fire a single powerful shot, a shotgun blast, or an explosive round, while the daggers allow the player to jump upwards and scale the sides of huge Oni — a boon when trying to cut off hard - to - reach limbs.

Still, Rocket Knight is a blast and you feel satisfied when you go ricocheting off walls and take out a line of enemies immediately after.

Since this is the place that people mention games that would be on theirs but aren't on yours (again with many «HOW CUD U» s), I'll give a shout out to Meteos — a match - three puzzler where the blocks blast off into the atmosphere upon matching, with more launches pushing the stack up further when it starts to flag.

«I remember blasting Miles Davis when I lived in Oakland,» he recalls, «and the black kids screamed, «Turn that fucking white music off!

Yet looking through the past exhibitions» rosters, from 2000, 2005, and 2010, the majority of the participants were featured at a crucial moment in their careers, a moment when they either blasted off or faded into obscurity.

Thank God I had the sense to follow the good advice of my Local 6 colleagues and wear ear plugs when playing the big Broadway shows downtown in S.F. for the years that they were hiring real live string players — now we have a buying public that understands not the difference — chalk it up to the absence of music education, never mind what Plato said about the only two things we really need to study («music and gymnastic»), because, after all, those «useless» subjects just won't get us the rocket scientists who can come up with the formulas so that the richest, most «powerful» of our species can simply blast off and wave Earth «buh - BYE...» after, like hogs at the trough, they've finished plundering, polluting and otherwise raping this once - beautiful paradise..., to which I will now say: «GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAAAAD RUBBISH!»