blastoff

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The launchpad also was damaged on blastoff — sending debris flying across nearly 400 acres.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

“It’s called heeeaaaling,” she crowed amid the show’s gleaming, jab-stepping blastoff.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2022

So the team instead settled on another idea: What if the rocket could be tossed several meters above the surface, allowing more clearance for blastoff?

From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2022

The quartet of amateur space travelers, led by the American founder and chief executive of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc, Jared Isaacman, were due for blastoff as early as 8 p.m.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2021

Before my phone broke, I’d watched the blastoff footage online all the time to remind myself that I too was meant to be a scientist and someday walk in space.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas