| The camera will be turned on fifteen minutes prior to launch and will show the orbiter and solid rocket boosters on the launch pad. |
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| The shuttle then leaps off the launch pad in a dramatic and heart-stopping display of pyrotechnics. |
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| However, skies cleared enough for observers at the launch pad to follow the rocket on its long trajectory. |
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| And like jets, the next generation of space vehicles might take off from a runway rather than a launch pad. |
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| It owns a landing stage on the Hudson River which it plans to develop as a launch pad for the amphibious tours. |
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| Ready to vault, a serious faced youth, paced out his run, backed up again and then sprinted down the launch pad. |
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| As a result, activity on the launch pad was suspended prior to the startup of the third stage fueling. |
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| The whole assembly was carried to the launch pad on a vehicle known as a crawler transporter. |
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| What is an astronaut feeling as he's sitting on the rocket launch pad strapped into his pod at the brink of takeoff? |
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| It's a photo of the space shuttle Columbia on the launch pad, before the first-ever shuttle takeoff 22 years ago. |
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| Plan Expo may be a trade fair for the construction industry, but every year it is the launch pad for the latest concepts in design. |
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| The contract includes a full-scale reusable system that will provide the capability to test technologies in a launch pad abort situation. |
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| They do not require propellant loading on the launch pad, and they can be stored for long periods. |
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| Your journey out of this world begins not on the launch pad like a conventional space rocket but on a runway. |
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| Nasa decided to leave space shuttle Discovery on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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| The space shuttle sits on a launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
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| The three-day event allows the crew to practice prelaunch activities, including launch pad safety training and a countdown dress rehearsal. |
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| The latter shoots passengers 160 feet in the air with a force of 4Gs before free-falling back to the launch pad. |
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| It records 2 frames a second from launch pad to splashdown, and it completely replaces existing technology. |
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| The studios have always approached Cannes warily, eager to use it as a PR launch pad for their prestige pictures. |
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| Among the work outstanding is the preparation of the launch pad and the building of storage facilities. |
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| In 1967, three US Astronauts died in a launch pad fire at the Kennedy Space Centre. |
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| When one sees the Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad one notes the two big booster rockets attached to its sides. |
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| It had to be able to withstand a gigantic nearby explosion in case one of the rockets exploded on or near the launch pad. |
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| Researchers studied the medical records of 1,000 children in areas close to the launch pad. |
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| In the event of an emergency on the launch pad, the astronauts can evacuate the shuttle up to 30 seconds before launch. |
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| It will also be integrated and assembled in the mobile gantry on the launch pad and not in a final assembly building. |
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| Place the first target at 3m, with the centre of the box 3m away from the front edge of the launch pad. |
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| A blast danger area is established and cleared around the launch pad, with the closest safe location for the public to view a launch being about four miles from the site. |
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| Mark off a target zone on the floor with masking tape starting with a line at 2.5 m from the front edge of the launch pad. |
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| In their push into the European mobile TV market, they see next year's football World Cup in Germany as a crucial launch pad. |
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| They used this area as a launch pad to attack the coalition forces. |
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| Digital is the launch pad for all advanced interactive services. |
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| It proved the launch pad for a career that has been rocketing ever since. |
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| That these three minutes served as the launch pad for Muhammad's victory simply beggars belief. |
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| Now, you are sitting proudly on the launch pad.... It's going to be an exhilarating trip. |
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| The single market of the future should be the launch pad of an ambitious global agenda. |
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| This prestigious dance competition has been the launch pad for international careers for classical and contemporary dancers. |
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| As an outstanding defender of national security and as a powerful launch pad for real economic growth, Gripen is the Wings of Your Nation. |
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| The final report should be a launch pad of ideas for future reflections, comments and debate in a lively, open and ongoing exchange. |
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| Backyard trampolines are not recommended and should never be used as a launch pad into a pool. |
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| However, this recognition is only a launch pad for the next phase of our work. |
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| He felt it indispensable to establish a solid launch pad at the local and national levels, in order to be successful in foreign markets. |
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| Consider swimming ability and size of participants, especially if used as a launch pad. |
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| Asia was chosen as the launch pad because of its size and rapid economic growth. |
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| Building for preparation, assembly and testing of a launch vehicle before it is moved to the launch pad. |
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| The first mission, Apollo 1, never got off the ground after a fire killed its crew on the launch pad. |
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| The storms brought winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour and pelted areas near the launch pad with hailstones. |
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| The president wants to establish a permanent moon base and a launch pad that could be used from there to launch first unmanned exploration of Mars and Jupiter's moons. |
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| He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at cape Canaveral. |
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| The technology is a guidance system for a missile which uses a laser beam source at a missile launch pad to generate a laser beam that is directed towards a target. |
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| In 2011 Conferize was introduced prelaunch at the prestigious technology launch pad DEMO in Silicon Valley. |
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| It was put to a range of uses and can be found in the Paris metro, on oil rigs, in equipment for the world's leading steel manufacturers and, more recently, in the launch pad for the Ariane rocket in Kourou, French Guiana. |
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| The AMB exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany from 9th to 13th September will be the launch pad for WorkXPlore 3D, Sescoi's high-speed 3D viewer, in the German market. |
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| San Nicolas Island has been used since 1957 as a launch pad for research rockets. |
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| Concrete as a fire shield, for example Fondu fyre, can also be used in extreme environments like a missile launch pad. |
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| Before it cleared the launch pad, the rocket was rolling erratically, and about a minute later it began to disintegrate. |
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| Designing, building and implementing the power systems for the satellite integration clean rooms in the Energia Hall at the Baïkonour Cosmodrome and on the Soyouz launch pad. |
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| It provides a launch pad for strengthening policies and programmes across the EU through co-operation between Member States, in particular through the exchange of good practice. |
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| The limited existing efforts needed to be consolidated and serve as a launch pad for more systematic and regular risk-assessment efforts around the world. |
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| I have no doubt that Gemplus will further leverage on Singapore to grow even more by using Singapore as a launch pad to secure the enormous smart card and security potential in the region. |
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| The Stabilisation and Association Agreements are the launch pad for a partnership and if all the criteria are met, the application for membership is the next step. |
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| Santa Fe This fishing town is a good launch pad for the Chimanas. |
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| Thanks to NASA for great fly by of launch pad. |
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| The launch into orbit of Canada's second domestic communications satellite, Anik II, was delayed 24 hours when a small piece of adhesive tape disappeared from its position on an attachment at the launch pad. |
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| Nor can we attribute his life as a funnyman to that other launch pad for comedians, the need to keep the playground bullies at bay by making them laugh. |
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| To this day, Scranton still serves as a major pinnacle of show business in Pennsylvania, serving as a launch pad for careers. |
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| The Soyuz TMA-06M spaceship is mounted on a launch pad at the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome, on Sunday. |
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| His first launch pad was a gleaming white space station otherwise known as The Cludge Zone. |
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| The songs, by the Pet Shop Boys, are lame, but the launch pad at the flying competition is a giggle, with flailing rocket-men and giant bumblebees taking tumbles while the fez-topped MC crows into a loudhailer. |
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| She will be at the launch pad to repeat her sentiments next February. |
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| The Apollo program got off to a tragic start on January 27, 1967 when the first manned crew, Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee, died in a flash fire during a test of the Apollo command module on the launch pad. |
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