| Trip the master switch and a complex series of events eventually leads to the blast off of the space shuttle. |
| The spacecraft will blast off on 26 October on a journey that will take it approximately five months. |
| When it's time for your alarm to ring a timer is triggered and if you don't stop the alarm before it goes off the rocket will blast off and propel itself across the room. |
| On May 27, Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk will blast off on a Soyuz rocket headed for the International Space Station. |
| Forty-three cars gun their massive engines and blast off. |
| Current polar satellite launch vehicles can blast off carrying 1,000 to 1,200-kilogram units. |
