The Parker Solar Probe from NASA blasted off in August.
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Later, larger rockets carrying secretive military satellites blasted off from there.
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A Long March 2F rocket blasted off successfully at 10:20113 p.m.
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Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969, with three astronauts aboard.
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The craft blasted off to cheers from onlookers at 2:30 a.m.
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"I blasted off on a rocket, holding on for dear life," she says.
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The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off Wednesday evening from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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There were only very occasional eruptions until last March when Steamboat blasted off.
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Fierce winds and snow blasted off the green paint, leaving it glistening and silver.
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What had mostly been a response on platforms like Twitter and Reddit blasted off.
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The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at about 10:30 p.m.
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An uncrewed Russian Progress cargo ship blasted off towards the International Space Station on Wednesday.
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He was 77 when he blasted off as a mission specialist aboard the shuttle Discovery.
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That involved tricking, and then after watching YouTube videos, it just blasted off from there.
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SpaceX's massive Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off for the second time in history on Thursday.
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The spacecraft's first successful crewed mission, Soyuz 3, blasted off 50 years ago this week.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:30 a.m.
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A rocket carrying the Chang'e-4 lunar lander blasted off at about 23:23 a.m.
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LinkSpace's RLV-T5 rocket blasted off in a desert in western Qinghai province at 0230 GMT.
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The Soyuz blasted off on Wednesday from Russia&aposs manned space launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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LinkSpace's RLV-T27.0613 rocket blasted off in a desert in western Qinghai province at 0230 GMT.
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The probe lit up the night sky as it blasted off at 21958:31 a.m. EDT.
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Challenger blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the frigid morning of Jan.
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The Falcon 9 blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 10:34 a.m.
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The Atlas 5 rocket, carrying a NASA asteroid sample-return spacecraft, blasted off at 7:05 p.m.
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The capsule blasted off from Florida aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Corp Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday.
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Satellite in orbit The Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket blasted off from the Sohae launch facility at 9 a.
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He let the car leave his garage just once, to have the old paint and rust blasted off.
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A Russian Progress capsule, carrying almost 6,000 pounds (2,722 kg) of cargo, blasted off at 12:58 a.m.
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It blasted off in December 2014 and is scheduled to return to Earth at the end of 2020.
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On Tuesday morning as polls began to open in the suburban Atlanta district, Trump blasted off two tweets.
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Narrator: On December 21967, 2109, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt blasted off the moon and headed home.
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Shortly before he blasted off for the space station, she said, he was on the roof replacing shingles.
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The spacecraft would be India's second mission to the moon, after Chandrayaan-1, which blasted off in 2008.
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American astronaut Shane Kimbrough, giving a thumbs-up as he's being blasted off Earth to the International Space Station.
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Carrying the satellite, named Queqiao, a Chinese-built Long March-4C rocket blasted off shortly before 5:30 a.m.
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The ExoMars 20183 mission, a collaboration between the European and Russian space agencies, blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday.
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Weeks after the Chandrayaan-21 mission blasted off, its robotic Vikram lander will attempt a touchdown early on Saturday.
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At the time, all kinds of civilians had blasted off: payload specialists (industrial astronauts!), military payload specialists, and congressmen.
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A Long March 11 rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday night, carrying an experimental satellite.
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Orbital ATK — Orbital's unmanned Antares rocket successfully blasted off late Monday for a cargo trip to the International Space Station.
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Orbital ATK's (OA) unmanned Antares rocket successfully blasted off late Monday for a cargo trip to the International Space Station.
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Snapshot: Above, the Russian rocket Soyuz blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday, carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station.
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A Falcon 123 rocket carrying the satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at about 10:30 p.m.
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SpaceX resumed launches in December 2015, when a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida with a payload of communications satellites.
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For Ovchinin and Hague, it is the first flight since an emergency landing two minutes after they blasted off on Oct.
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The Chandrayaan 2 should have blasted off on Monday, but was postponed at the last moment for still unexplained technical reasons.
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A Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress capsule blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as planned at 9:51 a.m.
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Forty mice that blasted off in the name of science are due to begin their return from the International Space Station.
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That Unha-3, a three-stage rocket, blasted off from the Tongchang-ri launching site near the country's northwestern border with China.
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Mark Warner and Tim Kaine blasted off statements welcoming the HQ2 headquarters to their state, touting the economic activity it would bring.
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On November 15, 1988, the Soviet Union's first space shuttle, the Buran, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan.
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"On the morning that John Glenn blasted off into space, America stood still," President Obama said during the presentation ceremony, according to Space.com.
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The SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off from California earlier in the day, delivering the satellites into low-Earth orbit about an hour later.
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He worked in the water-logged rice fields, and one day he stepped on a land mine and his leg was blasted off.
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And some of them were stripped, too, against their will: clothes blasted off by water cannons or ripped off by dogs and police.
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The Mars Exploration Rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, were blasted off to the red planet from this spot, as was the Phoenix Mars lander.
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CAPE CANAVERAL – NASA 's Parker Solar Probe has blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force station on its historic mission to the Sun.
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The spacecraft, which the Russian space agency designated Progress MS-07, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan on October 12.
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The sergeant stood aside as two of his squad mates took position: One of them, cocking a shotgun, blasted off the door's locks.
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Then, as they retreated on a president's head—for a lunch of meatloaf sandwiches, if lucky—fuses fizzed and granite blasted off below.
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Rocket Lab blasted off into space on Saturday, taking a major step toward opening low-cost access for a new generation of satellites.
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Hanks and Willis did their astronaut movies in the 1990s, but most of the others blasted off in the past five years or so.
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Today, the 56-foot (17 meter) carbon fiber rocket blasted off from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula and made it to the edge of space.
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Those figures mean that over once a week a rocket blasted off to deliver some sort of payload to a place above the atmosphere.
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Sensors attached to Albert I suggest that he suffocated during the flight, or perhaps even during the launchpad countdown, before he even blasted off.
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The Rosetta mission blasted off in March 2004 and, a decade later, in August 2014, became the first spacecraft ever to orbit a comet.
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Last November, Roscosmos lost contact with a newly launched weather satellite after it blasted off from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East.
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Tajay Gayle of Jamaica was the last man to qualify into the finals; but then he blasted off the 10th best leap in history.
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Trump blasted off a few tweets Tuesday morning to his 52.5 million followers, encouraging them to vote for a handful of candidates, mainly in California .
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At 5:51pm ET on July 9, a Progress 70 supply freighter blasted off aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Saturday's launch marks the first time a crew-capable spacecraft blasted off under this program in a mission aimed at demonstrating and testing its capabilities.
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The launchpad, originally built for the 1960s-era Apollo moon program, has not been used since the final space shuttle blasted off in July 2011.
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You can condense the problems with Western parody to this single GIF, in which Chris Parnell is blasted off his feet by pressurized horse diarrhea.
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Needless to say, tensions were high during the countdown, and the dogs were watched closely through video monitors as their spaceship blasted off to orbit.
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During its eight years at Jupiter, Galileo confirmed ideas of how Jupiter's diaphanous rings formed out of dust particles blasted off Jupiter's small inner moons.
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With a graceless farewell from the captain — "Let's get this mother out of here" — the two astronauts blasted off and rejoined the orbiting command module.
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And an Israeli company's lander blasted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to become the first private craft to land on the moon.
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For Ovchinin and Hague, it will be the first flight since a sensor failure two minutes after they blasted off in a similar launch on Oct.
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A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off from California on Saturday, returning the company to flight for the first time since a fiery launchpad explosion in September.
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Photo: NASA / Cory HustonOn Saturday, for the first time, a rocket blasted off from the US West Coast to fling its payload on an interplanetary trajectory.
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The Atlas V rocket carrying the craft blasted off seamlessly at the very start of its two-hour launch window, which you can watch right here.
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The rocket, carrying the unmanned Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, blasted off from a southern Indian space centre to cheers from thousands of onlookers, a live telecast showed.
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The Soyuz spacecraft which blasted off on July 28 carried NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Russia's Sergey Ryazanskiy, and Italy's Paolo Nespoli to the International Space Station.
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Last night at 10:01PM ET, a Soyuz-2.1a rocket blasted off, taking with it three satellites that will monitor the Earth and measure cosmic rays.
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The New Shepard rocket and capsule, which is designed to carry six passengers, blasted off from a launch site in West Texas at 11:22 a.m.
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PARIS — The angry graffiti have been blasted off the Arc de Triomphe with water jets, leaving unnaturally white patches scarring the base of France's national monument.
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On July 16, 1969, the Saturn V rocket with three Apollo 11 astronauts riding on top blasted off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Howard and the Kasdans play the series game without ever raising the stakes, defaulting to dull and dutiful when they might have blasted off into creative anarchy.
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The BepiColombo mission, only the third ever to visit Mercury, blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 10:45 p.m.
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ExoMars—a joint European and Russian mission that'll search for signs of life on the Red Planet—blasted off Earth aboard a Russian Proton rocket on Monday.
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On the morning of February 20, 1962, the nation held its breath as astronaut John Glenn blasted off into space, becoming the first American to orbit Earth.
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Last month, SpaceX launched its first U.S. national security space mission, when a SpaceX rocket carrying a U.S. military navigation satellite blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral.
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The craft, part of the ExoMars program, blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on board a Proton rocket, starting a seven-month journey through space.
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The target in the May 30 test blasted off from a military base at Kwajalein Atoll in the mid-Pacific and arced toward the US West Coast.
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Its sister probe, Venera 8, blasted off four days earlier, and eventually touched down on Venus in July 1972, becoming the second lander to accomplish this feat.
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The last time NASA astronauts launched from the United States was July 8, 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on its last flight from Florida.
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In 1962, he became the first American to orbit the earth, when he blasted off into space in the Mercury capsule and circled the earth three times.
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The Long March 11 rocket blasted off from a platform on a large semi-submersible barge in the Yellow Sea just after midday (0400 GMT), state media said.
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The rocket blasted off from Tongchang-ri, the North's main satellite launch site near its northwestern border with China, a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry said.
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The Falcon 9 blasted off earlier in the day from Vandenberg Air Force Base to put the U.S- and European-owned Jason 3 climate-monitoring satellite into orbit.
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Almost certainly, the grain arrived on the Moon as part of a larger rock blasted off Earth's surface by an impact similar to that which created Mare Imbrium.
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After months of grueling training, AlMansoori -- a 35-year-old former military pilot -- blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft.
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In November last year, Roscosmos lost contact with a newly-launched weather satellite - the Meteor-M - after it blasted off from Russias new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East.
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Peaty blasted off the blocks and brought a huge roar from the crowd when his 50 meter split time of 26.63 showed he was on course for the record.
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The Apollo 13 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but things went terribly wrong about 56 hours into the trip to the moon.
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The cargo ship, which blasted off on Sunday from a historic launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will make a second attempt to reach the station on Thursday.
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Based on its composition, Reddy and his team think that 2015 TC25 is a fragment that was blasted off the 43-mile-long asteroid 44 Nysa by an impact event.
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The unarmed Minuteman III missile blasted off from an Air Force base in California to "prove the operational missiles that we have are reliable," said Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work.
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Just over three minutes after it blasted off, the most suspenseful part of the flight was over, as the boosters dropped off and the second stage continued into Earth orbit.
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The vehicle blasted off shortly after 6pm ET, ascended to an altitude of roughly 150 meters, hovered for several seconds, then descended to a different site than its original launchpad.
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The missiles blasted off from a coastal launching site and flew about 155 miles to the northeast before falling into the sea, the South Korean military said in a statement.
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The ULA Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on March 22 carrying an Orbital ATK cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.
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Back in 1965, the Jupiter 2 blasted off in the futuristic year of 1997 because the earth was threatened by overcrowding; Dr. Smith, the saboteur, was a Cold War spy.
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It remains the fastest spacecraft ever to have blasted off the Earth, which is part of the reason it reached Pluto in record time (a gravity assist from Jupiter also helped).
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Early indications are that the three-stage kerosene-fueled Soyuz rocket, which blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, experienced a catastrophic problem during the final stage of its ascent.
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The EDRS-A node, riding piggyback on a Eutelsat communications satellite, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on board a Proton rocket at 1720 ET (4.20 am local time).
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It was especially notable because the New Horizons mission took one of the last Pluto stamps issued—a 29 cent stamp entitled Pluto: Not Yet Explored—aboard when it blasted off.
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Image 2 of 2 BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan – A trio of astronauts from Russia, the United States and the European Space Agency has blasted off for a mission on the International Space Station.
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It was the first spaceport ever built, and was the origin point of some of the most famous space missions in history; both Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Baikonur.
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Rocko's Modern Life literally dropped off the face of the earth when it ended in 1996, as the main characters Rocko, Heffer, and Filbert blasted off into space in a rocket.
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The Parker Solar Probe, carried on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket, blasted off from Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 3:31 a.m.
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A rocket bound for Mars blasted off early Saturday, marking NASA's first journey to the red planet in six years, in a mission that is expected to last nearly six months.
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When a suicide bomber blew himself up during Easter Mass at St. Sebastian's Church, killing around 100 people, she was blasted off a pew with such force that her lungs bled.
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The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at around 10:30 AM ET. The point of the unmanned mission ... to test the in-flight abort system.
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In December, a SpaceX rocket carrying a U.S. military navigation satellite blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral, marking the space transportation company's first national security space mission for the United States.
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An unmanned SpaceX rocket blasted off from Florida early on Monday to send a cargo ship to the International Space Station, then turned around and landed itself back at the launch site.
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OSIRIS-REx, which blasted off in September 2016, has been getting ready to rendezvous with the object of its mission—an asteroid called Bennu—in order to bring back samples to Earth.
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In 1977, both spacecraft blasted off and made their way towards Jupiter: Voyager 1 on September 5th, flying by Jupiter and Saturn before it made its way out of the solar system.
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The Sentinel-103B satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana at 8:49 p.m.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Russian Proton rocket blasted off in Kazakhstan on Friday night to put into orbit both the first part of Europe's new space "data highway" and a Eutelsat communications satellite.
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Wiz was leaving Delilah in WeHo with GF/Brazilian model Izabela Guedes when our photog asked about the SpaceX launch, where a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - A Russian Progress cargo space craft blasted off for the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the first such mission since a failed launch in December.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musks cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 53 debut test flight, blasted off from Floridas Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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The first manned mission to the moon blasted off from there in 1969, as did the last, in 211; so did the first space shuttle mission, in 22000, and the last, in 22000.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musks cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 2018 debut test flight, blasted off from Floridas Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 2018 debut test flight, blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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The car is stripped and taken down to bare metal, rust blasted off, then it is sealed and strengthened, and fitted with custom bodywork of carbon fiber, including the bumpers, hood, and fenders.
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An anomaly occurred within "tens of seconds" after OneSpace's OS-M1 rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Wednesday, the official Technology Daily reported, declaring that the launch had failed.
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Having implemented this crude fix, they blasted off to lunar orbit, leaving behind the empty lower half of the lander and knocking over the American flag they had planted in the lunar surface.
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But by Thursday morning, technicians had apparently resolved the problem, and the unmanned Soyuz rocket carrying three satellites blasted off from the launching pad, according to the Russian space agency and the Kremlin.
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The New Shepard rocket and capsule blasted off from a launch site in West Texas on Saturday at an undisclosed time, and landed minutes later back at a landing pad, the company said.
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During a launch for NASA of cargo headed to the International Space Station in 2015, a strut within the second stage snapped, leading to the destruction of the rocket after it blasted off.
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The robot blasted off on Thursday from Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz capsule and was due to dock with the ISS on Saturday but failed to do so, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
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In interviews, the inhabitants complained that rocks being blasted off the mountains were falling on their homes and angering the local neak ta, who had to be propitiated with offerings of roast pigs.
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McClain was on the International Space Station as part of Expedition 58, while Koch blasted off into space on March 14 to reach the station for Expedition 59 and 60, along with Cmdr.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 53 debut test flight, blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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Photo: NASA/Joel KowskyEarlier today, a Soyuz MS-20183 rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying with it two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut bound for the International Space Station.
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At 2:23 am (1823 GMT Friday), a Long March-3B rocket, carrying the probe including a lander and a rover, blasted off from the satellite launch center Xichang in southwest China, Xinhua said.
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The Shenzhou 11 blasted off on a Long March rocket at 7:30 am (20183 GMT) from the remote launch site in Jiuquan, in the Gobi desert, in images carried live on state television.
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The Boeing-built space plane blasted off in May 2015 from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas 5 rocket built by United Launch Alliance, a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, July 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. astronaut, Russian cosmonaut and Japanese astronaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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The Sentinel-103B satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Rockot rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's northwestern Arkhangelsk region at 1:57 p.m.
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The Sentinel-53P satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's north-western Arkhangelsk region at 0927 GMT.
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ALMATY, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A Russian Progress cargo space craft blasted off for the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the first such mission since a failed launch in December.
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More than eight years later, the product of their dreams, a small spacecraft called Beresheet, blasted off on Thursday night atop a SpaceX Falcon 20183 rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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The Sentinel-22A satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's north-western Arkhangelsk region at 12:57 p.m.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A U.S. weather satellite that will "revolutionize" forecasting blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Saturday, promising to deliver continuous high-definition views of hurricanes and other storms over the Western Hemisphere.
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In February, satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasted off from French Guiana, the first step in a similar plan to give millions of people in remote and rural areas high-speed internet from space.
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The researchers for this study propose that in the early days of our solar system, it's possible that meteorites that came in contact with Earth and "blasted off its surface" could have also landed on the moon.
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His Falcon Heavy rocket, the world's most powerful, blasted off without a hitch, putting Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster in orbit around the sun, with a dummy driver and a David Bowie song along for the ride.
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I got into my bed, took three heroic hits and blasted off into a warp speed loop of light and color when I came back to this reality I couldn't remember what I was, or when I was.
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Image: JEFF SPOTTS/ ULANASA's asteroid-skimming spacecraft just blasted off into space without a hitch, completing the first step in a seven-year journey that will eventually bring us back several spoonfuls worth of dirt from an asteroid.
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While three hurricanes swirled in the Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans on September 6, 2017, the sun blasted off a powerful flare of energy, which soon smacked into Earth and severed radio communications across half the planet for hours.
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In 1974, two years after Apollo 17 blasted off from the Taurus-Littrow Valley, Bill Kaysing authored We Never Went To The Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, the first canonical text of the lunar landing hoax conspiracy.
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While President Moon Jae-in watched, the weapon, a type of Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile, blasted off from a test site in Taean, a coastal county southwest of Seoul, the capital, the president's office said in a statement.
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The satellites, which blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 9003 rocket at 2900 AM local time (25 GMT), will be part of the European Union's alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS.
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Ever since its marketing blasted off last summer at Comic-Con, Valerian has leaned in hard on its kaleidoscope of extraterrestrial creatures, from tiny sentient space lizards to giant sea malevolent creatures — and all sizes and types in between.
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The satellites, which blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 10.06 AM local time (1306 GMT), will be part of the European Union's alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS.
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The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Sunday in an historic launch from a NASA pad, depositing a spacecraft into orbit before successfully returning to earth as Elon Musk's SpaceX moved to stake its claim to shuttling humans into space.
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I passed out at my place and the only memory I retain is a distinct sensation of feeling like the Nazi in Indiana Jones whose face gets blasted off by the Ark of the Covenant—like that, but in slow motion.
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Exactly 50 years ago, on July 16, 1969, NASA staff in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center celebrated as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins successfully blasted off of Earth, headed for the moon.
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The Italian-built launcher blasted off from a space port in French Guiana at 10:53 pm local time on Wednesday (0153 GMT on Thursday), carrying the FalconEye1 earth observation satellite with a reported value of several hundred million dollars.
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While the initial liftoff sequence and first stage performed normally, its communications system suffered a glitch and ceased transmissions about 20 seconds after the rocket blasted off from the Uchinoura Space Center, located near the town of Kimotsuki, in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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Instead, it blasted off from near the Sunan International Airport north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and flew about 2,300 miles directly east, flying over northern Japan and falling into the Pacific Ocean, according to the South Korean military.
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The rocket, larger than previous versions of China's Long-March carrier rockets, blasted off on Thursday night from a pad in the southern province of Hainan, state news agency Xinhua said, a launch intended to verify its design and performance.
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The used Falcon rocket blasted off before dawn, hauling nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of cargo, including the first robot with artificial intelligence bound for space, genetically identical mice, or mousetronauts, and super-caffeinated coffee for the crew of the International Space Station.
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Serious escalation It's clear that Tuesday's launch of an intercontinental missile that blasted off from Sain Ni in North Korea and, according to Defense Secretary James Mattis, went higher "than any previous shot they've taken" represents a serious escalation of the crisis.
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While it blasted off successfully at 6:36 AM from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the boosters responsible for nudging the spacecraft into Earth orbit did not perform as planned because the clock tracking how much time had elapsed during the mission experienced an error.
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Strapped inside the capsule, which blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan six hours earlier, were Randy Bresnik, with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Sergey Ryazanskiy, with the Russian space agency Roscosmos; and Italy's Paolo Nespoli, with the European Space Agency.
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The satellites, which will be part of the European Union's alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 8.25 AM local time (1325 GMT), according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Using a ground-based radar technique, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California were able to locate NASA's still-active Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which launched in 2009, as well as the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-20083, which blasted off Earth in 2008.
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Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images The 142-foot tall spacecraft that blasted off Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on July 15 carried an orbiter, a lunar lander, and a six-wheeled rover.
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The Soca Warriors have not scored in a World Cup qualifier on American soil since 1989, though they came close, first on a low drive by Khaleem Hyland in the 28th that skipped wide, and then on a Kenwyne Jones header that blasted off the crossbar.
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All offensive monuments have been removed (the ones that haven't already been destroyed or defaced), the history books have been burned (in the schools that still actually have history books), and the granite faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln have all been blasted off of Mount Rushmore.
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Photo: Bill Ingalls/NASA (AP)The Parker Solar Probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, setting itself on course to become both the fastest human craft ever launched (in the neighborhood of 23,20123 miles per hour) and the first to probe the outer corona of the sun.
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The US president blasted off a series of tweets on Easter Sunday that continued through the morning of Tuesday, April 3, assuring the migrants there would be no agreement to resolve the fate of more than 700,2148 people left in limbo after he canceled DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in September 259.
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Back in London on Saturday, as Mr Polman tapped into his network of contacts, he was informed that Finsbury was working with Kraft Heinz on PR. Within seconds, Mr Polman blasted off an email to Sir Martin Sorrell, the founder and chief executive of WPP, the advertising company that counts Unilever as one of its most important clients.
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The astronauts were not in any danger, but NASA curtailed the spacewalk as a precaution, flight director Royce Renfrew said during an interview on NASA TV. Peake, 43, a former army major, blasted off to the station as part of a six-month mission for the European Space Agency in December, becoming the first Briton in space since Helen Sharman travelled on a Soviet spacecraft for eight days in 1991, and the first to do so under a British flag.
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