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rocket

noun as in projectile

verb as in shoot up

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That mission, the first uncrewed flight test of our powerful Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, is just a little more than a year away from launch.

When it flies, it will do so with six of the same engines, on top of a giant rocket booster called Super Heavy.

To take off from the Martian surface and return home, astronauts will need liquid oxygen rocket fuel.

Large industrial 3D printers can whip up rockets and houses.

At 394 feet tall by 30 feet wide, the rocket outsizes all those previously used in spaceflight, including the Saturn V used in NASA’s Apollo program.

The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?

These people that work for the BOP are not rocket scientists.

Her brothers formed a group to rescue people after a rocket attack.

It is adopting technology—in rocket propulsion, composite construction, and aerodynamic refinements—already in use elsewhere.

That would require the rocket to run for 55 to 60 seconds without a glitch.

General Pio del Pilar slept in the city every night, ready to give the rocket-signal for revolt.

It was in conjunction with Mr. Booth that my father constructed the 'Rocket' engine.

The day “Rocket” was much older, and got a good share of the Isle of Wight traffic.

Francis Falconer, who died at Petersfield about 1874, drove the day “Rocket” all the time it ran.

The Portsmouth Road has known no through coach since his “Rocket” was discontinued.

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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rocket, such as: booster, firework, intercontinental ballistic missile, missile, spacecraft, and spaceship.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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