liftoff
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I liked the indie rock sound, but mostly for the collaborative liftoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now one major step closer to liftoff.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Wagner is confident that geothermal energy has now achieved liftoff, and will only get better and cheaper over time.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Alexi has achieved cultural liftoff in a you-gotta-see-this way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Finally, at eleven minutes and forty-two seconds after liftoff, we arrived in orbit, one hundred miles up at a speed of 18,0 miles an hour.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
In recent years, North Korea has been pushing to develop more weapons with built-in solid propellants, which make launches harder to detect than liquid-propellant missiles that must be fueled before liftoffs and cannot last long.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Security Council resolutions ban North Korea from performing any launches using ballistic technology, such as satellite liftoffs and missile tests.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
It was a thing of teeth-rattling liftoffs and bone-thumping landings and a dependence on fire—fire!, the fuel of the primitives—to get anywhere at all.
From Time ● Feb. 27, 2015
The engaging Gomez’s liftoffs occur courtesy of ZFX’s flying effects.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2014
Yet that audience dwindled quickly after the first flight in 1981 as the missions turned routine, or at least seemed that way to the television executives who decided to stop showing live liftoffs.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2011
