| Would it not be easy to find numerous youths to fly to the moon in a rocket plane if the opportunity were offered? |
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| The edges of the tattered hull weren't jagged or serrated like a normal gash caused by a rocket or something more powerful than a normal laser. |
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| Despite a rocket lending a futuristic flavour to the panto, the traditional family show also harks back to the past. |
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| Both a jet engine and a rocket engine function by expelling hot gases opposite to the direction of desired acceleration. |
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| The jet engine and the rocket engine have different nozzles because they are harnessing two different kinds of propulsion. |
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| Various activities during the two weeks, including the launch of the sounding rocket, will be webcast. |
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| Try to include a few slightly bitter salad leaves such as radicchio or witloof, or peppery ones such as watercress or rocket. |
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| Sow more rocket and other autumn salads such as escarole and radicchio, which will last until Christmas. |
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| They can improve current systems, or develop new products, like a rocket that lifts off on invisible laser beams. |
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| It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this is junk science. |
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| However, our first adverts of the season hit the shelves next week, and then our traffic will rocket. |
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| Conlon's rocket sent his side's supporters into raptures but O'Donohoe held his nerve to cut short the Sligo side's premature celebrations. |
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| The oldest, a rocket scientist, is now a father himself, the youngest is off to university to read medicine. |
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| Serve the fish with some herbed yoghurt sauce, some toasted granary or wholemeal bread and a fresh rocket salad. |
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| Selling off an easily defined and valued book of business is hardly rocket science. |
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| A variation of this uses a stream of gas or liquid in the rocket nozzle to divert the exhaust flow. |
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| The very first air-to-air missile was an aircraft rocket designed primarily for antiballoon or anti-Zeppelin work. |
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| The multi-role fighter can be armed with air-to-surface, air-to-ground and anti-ship missiles, as well as rocket pods, bombs and cluster bombs. |
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| For ground attack, the aircraft can be armed with rocket pods, bombs, cluster bombs or air-to-surface missiles. |
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| The missiles are filled with volatile rocket fuel and two hundred kilograms of high explosives. |
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| This perennial, bush-like plant regrows its slender leaves each time it's picked and is the strongest-tasting rocket of all. |
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| This lightweight rocket is right up our alley in that we have a lot of experience building sails for similar type boats. |
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| Female flies lay eggs every two or three days, 300 eggs each time, which means the number of flies will rocket if not controlled. |
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| Everything from napalm components to green berets, from gunsights to whiskey, from radio relays to rocket warheads, were provisioned. |
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| It said the rocket was fired shortly after sunset and landed on a farm land nearly 300 meters short of the embassy building. |
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| Most are the result of roadside bombs, landmines and rocket attacks on military camps. |
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| The hospital official said the shell was ammunition for either a rocket or mortar. |
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| A monitor in the gallery replayed a short video showing the blinding flash as lightning traveled down the copper filaments from rocket to earth. |
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| A traditional chemical rocket would launch the spacecraft out of Earth orbit. |
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| The technicians were putting in place the final details relating to Monday's scheduled rocket launch. |
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| The United States developed a multitude of delivery systems, ranging from multiple rocket launchers to missiles. |
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| The helicopter can be fitted with gun pods, rocket launchers and air-to-air missiles attached to two removable weapons sponsons. |
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| Six kinds of weapon have been found on the ship so far, including antiaircraft missile launchers and antitank rocket guns. |
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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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| However, skies cleared enough for observers at the launch pad to follow the rocket on its long trajectory. |
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| 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 first launch of any new rocket is risky and few companies will want to put their very expensive new spacecraft on an untried launch vehicle. |
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| Its solid rocket motor ignited 5.2 seconds later sending the launch vehicle and research vehicle payload on its test flight. |
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| It is then mounted to the launch vehicle using a special adaptor that will release it into space once the rocket has done its job. |
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| You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that we are just giving teams a leg-up all the time. |
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| The image on the view screen faded to nothing and was quickly replaced with an animation of the projected path of the rocket. |
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| A boatyard owner renting deep-sea submarines in Vancouver is also murdered, as is a man purchasing illicit rocket guide wires in London. |
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| However, in September 1996 NASA commissioned Laithwaite to develop a rocket launcher using linear motors. |
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| Pasta starters also feature, such as linguine with semi-dried tomatoes, pine nuts and rocket, and pappardelle with chorizo and tomato sauce. |
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| Having stolen an interstellar rocket and propelled himself into orbit, he is now moments away from asphyxiation as his oxygen runs low. |
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| The car took off like a runaway rocket, the engine roaring, smoke billowing and lights glaring. |
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| The finale began with a rocket that symbolically extinguished the Olympic flame. |
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| Will this bizarre heist sizzle like a bottle rocket or fizzle like a defective firecracker? |
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| Augmented with an off-the-shelf rocket motor, Paveway II also became the basis for the navy's Skipper II air-to-surface missile. |
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| Nasa issued a contract in October 1962 that provided for the research and development of a nuclear-powered rocket engine. |
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| The operator signals the initiation of the launch sequence and the small booster rocket is ignited. |
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| The rocket motor ignites following discharge from the cannon and extends the effective range of the cannon. |
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| Even the pilot's seat is explosive, because it contains a rocket motor to eject the seat and pilot in an emergency. |
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| A missile catapulted from the Columbia's missile tube and fired its rocket motor. |
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| The main concern was for the still unaccounted for Cockpit Escape Module containing a large rocket motor. |
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| The pilot then fires the rocket motor for 80 seconds and pulls into a vertical climb. |
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| The rocket ignites, the boot pinwheels, the flare sputters and then quickly dies. |
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| Once it is dropped off, a rocket motor will fire for about 80 seconds, accelerating the vehicle to Mach 3 in a vertical climb. |
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| At this hour, Mission Control has fired up the rocket engine on a supply ship attached to Mir for the second of what will be three burns. |
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| The glide and end-game maneuverability are achieved without the added weight, cost and complexity of a rocket motor. |
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| When he wrote the novel, there was no such thing as a rocket ship, and no one had ever gone to the moon. |
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| Helping the scientists with their endeavor is a group of astronauts tooling around in their high-tech rocket ship, led by space-stud Katsuo. |
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| At the start of World War II, he entered the Royal navy and served with distinction on mine sweepers, destroyers, and rocket launchers. |
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| Many are heavily armed, while others must've arrived late the day that they were handing out rocket launchers. |
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| Milliseconds later powerful rams lifted the pod six inches, then its rocket motor ignited with a roar, boosting me at a crushing 11g on a slightly forward trajectory. |
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| But these resentments, They are the rocket fuel That lives In the tip of my sabre. |
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| After some scenes of preparing for the next launch, we see the lift-off as well, sticking with the shuttle well past the separation of the solid rocket boosters. |
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| A Grad is a multiple rocket launcher designed to devastate a defined but extensive area. |
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| Variables like weather, azimuth, elevation, crude launchers, and rocket viability quickly add up. |
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| Operators on the ground chose to detonate the rocket shortly after launch once it was established that there were problems. |
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| Currently only Russian rocket engines, fitted with the Russian ISS docking system, can reboost the Space Station. |
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| Children have fantasy lives so rich and combustible that rigging them with lies is like putting a propeller on a rocket. |
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| The spaceship then drops into gliding flight and fires its rocket motor while climbing steeply for more than a minute, reaching a speed of 2,500 mph. |
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| Another rocket is fired, and the smoke hangs ominously over the square. |
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| Both a rocket engine with a temperamental record and an airframe of revolutionary design and construction had to be proved safe. |
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| Each missile contained 44 kg of high explosives and 498 kg of rocket fuel. |
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| Kelly wants to develop the Astroliner, a winged rocket towed into the air by a 747 jet and released at altitude to soar on a suborbital trajectory under its own power. |
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| Pupils attending a workshop at a Bradford school yesterday were reaching for the stars when a rocket scientist dropped in to give a lesson in rocket-making. |
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| The rocket shipment seized on Wednesday, according to an IDF spokesman who briefed reporters, began in Damascus. |
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| It was silhouetted against the flames and it looked like a huge rocket. |
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| While many of these technologies may seem like science fiction, so too were the jet engine, the airplane, and the rocket engine only 100 years ago. |
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| Perchlorate is the substance that has served since the 1940s as an oxidizer in solid rocket fuel for more effective propulsion for space shuttles and missiles. |
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| Pop and outdoor ads sporting a rocket widget and a Guinness Draught bottle are aimed at building awareness for nitrogenated Guinness Draught and Stout in cans and bottles. |
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| However, the propulsion device of a rocket can be called either a rocket motor or a rocket engine, and usage here seems not to have settled on one or the other. |
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| There have also been episodic rocket attacks on Bekaa Valley Shiite towns fired from Syrian rebel-held positions. |
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| He was the point man in the promotion when Evel Knievel swore he'd soar across Snake River Canyon in a sawed-off rocket ship. |
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| He cites two rocket engineers, Geoff Daly and Caroline Campbell, who contest this claim. |
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| Baghdad and other cities are wracked by small arms and remote bomb ambushes and by mortar and rocket attacks, and are closed to commercial air traffic. |
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| The U.S. had stopped most research and development on this kind of engine after the Saturn V moon rocket was retired. |
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| A hole in the center of the nozzle closure is crimped around an insulated stud in the center of the initiator assembly, thus waterproofing the base of the rocket motor. |
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| In the background, a rocket ship shoots upward from the horizon. |
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| Young Dutch keeper Tim Krul saw his value rocket up with a sensational display. |
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| Yes, sometimes the fastest thing running is your nose. But please, focus on where you aim your snot rocket, or your spit. |
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| Soon the rocket was out of sight, and the flame was only seen as a tiny twinkle of light. |
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| We play a game she calls zoomy rocket, which usually draws some nasty maternal stares. |
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| For three days, bani Walid has come under withering Grad rocket barrages. |
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| Launched from a HIMARS mobile launcher, the GMLRS rocket flew 35 kilometers to the target, where the warhead detonated. |
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| Grab a glimpse of the science behind Doctor Who, go back in time to see the dinosaurs and sign up for the chance to design your own water rocket. |
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| A kite making session at 2pm on August 27 and a water rocket making workshop on August 29, at Birkenhead Park. |
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| The aerobrake would be deployed after the rocket has delivered its satellite into low-Earth orbit. |
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| Scott first tried his rocket net in 1948 in an English wheat field being used by wild geese, mostly whitefronts. |
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| These people that work for the bop are not rocket scientists. |
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| A new selection of lighter bites include moules frite with lemon aioli alongside crayfish and rocket on a warm wholemeal roll. |
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| The empty rocket stage from SpaceLiner would return to Earth after launch so that it could be reused. |
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| According to WAFA, they said an F16 jetfighter targeted a structure in the area with one rocket without causing any injury among residents. |
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| Before this spring, the rocket stage had probably spent three decades orbiting the sun. |
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| Planes were ordered to keep away from the area when the rocket blasted off from the Ben Armine estate in Sutherland. |
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| Manda and I had field mushrooms, glazed with Welsh rarebit and served on thick granary toast with bundles of rocket. |
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| Bodyboarders jockey for spots at the very tip of the odd, hump-shaped waves and rocket at angles down the face. |
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| The rocket oil is used as analgesic of joint pain, arthrosis, sciatic pain, myalgia, and also used as an anti-inflammatory agent. |
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| A parachute deployed, and then the rover and rocket stage dropped away from the parachute and began a powered descent toward the surface. |
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| Achieving this, even without using Flash, is not exactly rocket science so you wonder why. |
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| The children learnt all about the history of space travel and rocket building in sessions led by real rocket scientists. |
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| The North's official media yesterday revealed that Kim made the call at a banquet for rocket scientists in Pyongyang on Friday. |
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| But isn't it just possible that these same rocket scientists may be responsible for this serious problem? |
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| The show featured the adventures of Mr Spoon who, in each ten-minute episode, travels to Button Moon in his homemade rocket ship. |
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| The third stage was a Waxwing solid rocket motor, which burned for 55 seconds. |
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| A heavy machine gun, anti-materiel rifle, or rocket launcher might be a crew-served weapon. |
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| I remember my red rocket bicycle had baseball cards attached to the wheels so that the spokes made a ripping, enginelike noise. |
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| The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena. |
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| This improvement allowed as many as one hundred sinkijons to be mounted on the hwacha, boosting the overall firepower and mobility of the rocket. |
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| The Russian Katyusha is a multiple rocket thrower of which nothing is known except what can be seen on released photographs. |
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| In the form of rocket engines they power fireworks, model rocketry, spaceflight, and military missiles. |
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| Conventional rocket engines, however, do not have an intake, the oxidizer and fuel both being carried within the vehicle. |
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| Therefore, rocket engines do not have ram drag and the gross thrust of the rocket engine nozzle is the net thrust of the engine. |
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| Some early jet aircraft needed rocket assistance to take off from high altitude airfields or when the day temperature was high. |
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| Under the agreement, the Russian agency manufactures Soyuz rocket parts for ESA, which are then shipped to French Guiana for assembly. |
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| With a total maximum weight of 21 metric tons it would have been launched on the Ariane 5 rocket, which was being developed at that time. |
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| Whereas HOTOL would have launched from a rocket sled, to save weight, Skylon uses a conventional retractable undercarriage. |
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| The proposed SABRE engine is not a scramjet, but a jet engine running combined cycles of a precooled jet engine, rocket engine and ramjet. |
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| This engine design aims to be a good jet engine within the atmosphere, as well as being an excellent rocket engine outside. |
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| The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with two modes of operation. |
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| The compressed air is subsequently fed into the rocket combustion chamber where it is ignited along with stored liquid hydrogen. |
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| The successful launch of its first rocket into space made Pakistan the first South Asian country to have achieved such a task. |
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| Such rocket technology has also been used for the delivery of mail by rocket and is used as propulsion for most model rockets. |
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| Sources of perchlorate range from lightning and certain fertilizers to the perchlorate compounds in rocket fuel and explosives. |
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| Other issues include the dangers of falling rocket sticks, especially from larger rockets containing metal motors. |
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| In 2004 single shot Air Bombs and Bottle Rockets were banned, and rocket sizes were limited. |
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| Coalition forces were attacked indirectly, through rocket attacks on bases and improvised explosive devices. |
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| From this equation one can derive the equation of motion for a varying mass system, for example, the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. |
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| The multistage rocket dropped off its first stage successfully rather than carrying the extra weight higher. |
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| Range Safety blew up the errant rocket while the first stage sat on the pad and burned. |
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| Hitting the top yellow button awards the points and increases the point values for the central rocket button targets and the side outlanes. |
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| His torpedo ran on water with a rocket system filled with explosive gunpowder materials and had three firing points. |
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| These are mines containing a moving weapon as a warhead, either a torpedo or a rocket. |
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| Black Arrow, officially capitalised BLACK ARROW, was a British satellite carrier rocket. |
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| About 257 seconds into the flight, the second stage cut off, and the rocket entered a coast phase to apogee. |
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| One proposal added eight Raven solid rocket motors from the Skylark programme to the first stage as booster rockets. |
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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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| After the first stage engine failed, and the rocket began to fall back to earth, it was destroyed by range safety. |
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| N Hill, the Black Knight programme ultimately fulfilled its prime objective of gathering information on rocket systems. |
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| The Black Knight was regarded as being a successful programme, having produced a relatively low cost and reliable rocket. |
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| Between 1956 and 1959, the Gamma rocket engines underwent testing at the High Down Rocket Test Site under the direction of Paul Leyton. |
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| During 1957, the first test launch of the Black Knight rocket was performed at High Down on the Isle of Wight. |
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| The Black Knight BK02 rocket is on display at the Royal Museum Connect Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
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| The Black Knight BK22 rocket is on display at the World Museum in Liverpool, England. |
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| During the 1950s and 1960s, the complex was the second busiest rocket range in the world next to Cape Canaveral. |
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| Although initially allowed to lapse after the cancellation of the Joint Project, the use of the range for rocket research later increased. |
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| During the Cold War, Woomera had the second highest quantity and rate of rocket launches in the world after NASA's facilities at Cape Canaveral. |
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| Underground rocket testing rooms are currently being restored for exhibition. |
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| It was launched on 13 May 2007, aboard a Chinese Long March 3B carrier rocket, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China. |
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| In the 1940s and early 1950s, aniline was used with nitric acid or dinitrogen tetroxide as rocket fuel for small missiles and the Aerobee rocket. |
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| Fernandinho launched a rocket that flew just over. Gundogan's shot hit off Sviatchenko and Gordon and went out. City pressed and pressed. |
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| This technique now arrives almost subliminally for Quake players, but rocket jumping has long been recognized as one of Quake's key skills. |
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| The aircraft is powered by twin 400-pound thrust regeneratively cooled rocket engines and fueled by isopropyl alcohol and liquid oxygen. |
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| I highly recommend the Rucola, funghi e parmigiano comprising rocket salad and sauteed mushrooms, topped with parmesan cheese. |
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| On Tuesday, a rocket attack hit the city of Kramatorsk, where the Ukrainian military operation is headquartered. |
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| Its taste is stronger than cultivated rocket, rucola coltivata, pictured right. |
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| The Lunar Module was located two stages below the Command Module on the rocket. |
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| And he insists that you don't need to be a rocket scientist to become a rocketeer. |
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| A rocket engine works because chemicals inside it react in an explosion or series of explosions to make a blast of hot gases. |
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| When they started search they recovered 8 Kg suicide jacket, two rocket launcher and four-bomb rocket launcher. |
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| A rocket launcher, a pistol and magazines were recovered by police from the scene. |
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| The bodies, equipped with rocket launchers, were found in Afade, a town in Cameroon's Far North Region neighboring Nigeria. |
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| Huta Stalowa Wola of Poland has been producing 122 mm multiple rocket launchers for years. |
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| The first phase of the development is to design and test a heavyweight, prototype rocket motor. |
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| Ramjet supersonic takeover speed is achieved using a decommissioned Navy MK 70 solid rocket motor for the first stage. |
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| Currently, rocket motors are insulated with an EPDM rubber filled with aramid fibers or silica. |
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| Don't throw away EMR shields on the MOD 3 rocket motors or fin restraint bands on all other motor mods. |
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| Hunley argues that it's wrong because there is no such thing as rocket science. |
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| Jenny, Rugby Not rocket science I am sick to the back teeth of people trying to defend jockeys for the indefensible. |
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| Our glorious sweet rocket, Hesperis matronalis, which has self-seeded hither and thither in the raised beds, has sprawled over unsuspecting astrantias. |
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| These were pictures and images that inspired children's imagination and fueled the inventiveness of future astrophysicists, rocket scientists, university scholars. |
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| The day after the Time story appeared, the Pentagon ate crow and admitted the North Koreans had launched not a missile but a rocket carrying a satellite. |
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| Over the past seven years, ATK has incorporated those new technologies in the development of six new solid rocket motors C some developed in less than two years. |
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| Based on the Merlin 1C engine that boosted the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket to orbit in 2008, the Merlin Vacuum engine uses a regeneratively cooled combustion chamber. |
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| A replica of the Black Arrow rocket stands in the Rocket Park at Woomera. |
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| This affordability is essential for the high volume bomblet and grenade filled warheads used in modern artillery, rocket and air dispensed systems. |
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| Nevertheless kinematical and dynamical characteristics of the rocket guide tube tilting mechanism on the initial characteristics were not researched. |
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| Now they've captured government arms, and we're also seeing arms from former Yugoslavia, including anti-tank rocket launchers and recoilless guns. |
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| As a society, we seem to rate rocket scientists far too highly. |
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| I SEE that the rocket scientists, for so long apparently redundant in so many walks of life, have been re-appointed when it comes to ideas to maintain discipline in schools. |
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| He stopped in the city of Kramatorsk, 30 miles from the nearest front line, where Kiev says 16 people were killed and 48 wounded in a rocket strike yesterday. |
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| Accidental explosions may occur in fuel tanks, rocket engines, etc. |
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| An unmanned Atlas V rocket blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral with the rover, officially called Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky. |
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| The raiding party also recovered arms and ammunition, including two Kalashnikovs, a rocket launcher, eight hand grenades, six detonators and gunpowder. |
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| On March 28, the spacecraft and third rocket stage will be hauled over the East NASA Causeway to launch complex 17, where Odyssey will be rocketed from Earth. |
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| Along the fencerows and in the woods, foliage of garlic mustard, sweet rocket, sedum, leafcup, henbit, hepatica and wild ginger hold on against the frost. |
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| Cryogenic denotes a rocket stage that is much more efficient, providing more thrust for every kg of propellant compared to stages that run on solid and liquid propellants. |
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| Japan will launch an M-5 rocket to deliver an X-ray astronomy satellite into orbit Sunday afternoon, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Saturday. |
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| There was plenty of Klopp's trademark workaholism about Liverpool early on, with Adam Lallana appearing to have had a German rocket inserted up his backside. |
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| America's first attempt to use primate astronauts in 1948 failed when a V2 rocket exploded midflight, killing its passenger, a rhesus monkey named Albert. |
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| The water rocket challenge was hosted by Exhall Grange School this week. |
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| In May, 1,500 juniors and seniors from the Houston Independent School District explored the world of physics with NASA astronauts and rocket scientists. |
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| The launch abort motor, manufactured at Orbital ATK facilities in Magna, Promontory and Clearfield, Utah, is a powerful solid rocket motor designed to ensure crew safety. |
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| Fishing options abound inside the cockpit, including custom livewells, insulated fishboxes with macerators, rocket launcher rod holders and outriggers. |
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| Turtlemania is HOT!!! Since they made their debut as a comic strip seven years ago, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have taken off like a rocket. |
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| The first rocket exploded on the southeast camp fire perimeter, and the second dropped in to the northwest, a few hundred meters from the center of the workforce complex. |
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| Today's worshiper of Beavis and Butthead would tie the handkerchief around his head, put a finger to the side of his nose and launch a snot rocket. Cool. |
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| A number of ships from the fleet of the Royal Navy of Oman also participated in exercise, represented by Nasr Al Bahr and Al Manaser and rocket ship. |
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| The eddy-current displacement sensors will monitor valves responsible for the flow of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in rocket engine test cells. |
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| The rocket shot skyward and exploded in a burst of glittering stars. |
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| It was responsible for securing targets of interest for the British military, including nuclear laboratories, gas research centres and individual rocket scientists. |
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| Only rockets, rocket planes, and ballistic projectiles have flown higher. |
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| Another suggestion was to mount the entire rocket atop a Blue Streak missile, while a third proposal involved replacing the Gamma engines with the more powerful Larch. |
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| You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that that idea won't work. |
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| The turbo jets will help it get to the speed of sound and then retract, allowing the rocket motor to power it to more than 100,000 feet in the air. |
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| Orbital ATK will complete a First Article Acceptance Test on the rocket motor for the Sidewinder Missile System and produce motor-lots for the Foreign Military Sales program. |
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| The QM-1 static test is an important step in further qualifying this new five-segment solid rocket motor for the subsequent planned missions to send astronauts to deep space. |
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| The stationary firing of the first-stage development solid rocket motor, dubbed DM-2, was the most heavily instrumented solid rocket motor test in NASA history. |
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| The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform. |
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| Following World War II research was concerned with mechanical and nuclear physics, later moving into air density, experimental rocket launching equipment, and radar. |
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| Until recently lifeboat crews were called to duty using a firework rocket which was launched from the shore base and which exploded with a loud bang. |
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| Readers will appreciate the creative eccentricities of William Congreve and Robert Goddard, and enjoy learning about the different rocket motors and how they work. |
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| In a highly refined form, liquid methane is used as a rocket fuel. |
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| Special tooling and fixtures were developed to produce the head caps at volumes high enough to quickly alleviate the shortage of rocket motors in the field. |
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| Its Taurus rocket combines Pegasus upper stages with either government-supplied or commercially available first-stage rocket motors to boost larger payloads to orbit. |
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| The moon rocket was a real-world application of astrophysics. |
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| All four launches were conducted from Launch Area 5B at the Woomera Prohibited Area in Australia, which had previously been used as a test site for the Black Knight rocket. |
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| I began to wonder if all these tedious tasks had reached the level of rocket science that they could not be understood and undertaken by anyone and everyone in the home. |
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| It is rocket science and it's not an easy subject to master. |
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| As the R3 rocket had already been shipped to the launch site, the second stage having arrived three days earlier, permission was given for it to be launched. |
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| In fact, a rocket scientist might be the last thing you'd need to be. |
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| Consequently, the thrust characteristics of a rocket motor are different from that of an air breathing jet engine, and thrust is independent of velocity. |
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