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Recent Examples of liftoff
Moskowitz has reported live from rocket launches, space shuttle liftoffs and landings, suborbital spaceflight training, mountaintop observatories, and more.
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
The first launch window has target liftoffs at 11:20 p.m. March 31, with backups spilling over into April 1 at 12:53 a.m. and 2:26 a.m.
The first-stage booster is making its sixth flight to space, the same one that launched Crew-9 last September.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
SpaceX has at least two more Crew Dragon missions planned this year with the private company Axiom Space targeting a May liftoff to the International Space Station on what would be its fourth private mission.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
The first launch window has target liftoffs at 11:20 p.m. March 31, with backups spilling over into April 1 at 12:53 a.m. and 2:26 a.m.
The first-stage booster is making its sixth flight to space, the same one that launched Crew-9 last September.
—arkansasonline.com, 24 Mar. 2025
SpaceX has at least two more Crew Dragon missions planned this year with the private company Axiom Space targeting a May liftoff to the International Space Station on what would be its fourth private mission.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liftoff
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Tahoe Therapeutics and the Arc Institute have recently partnered in the launch of the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas: the most comprehensive and diverse public database of single-cell level transcriptomic data across a wide range of perturbations.—
Amelia Palermo,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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This has prompted the department to prepare the launch of a new series of alphanumeric license plates for the first time in nearly half a century.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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In a separate incident also last month, five people were injured when a small plane crashed near a retirement village near Lancaster, Pennsylvania after its door opened shortly after takeoff.—
Ayesha Ali,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2025
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That January collision was the deadliest U.S. plane crash since 2001, when a jet crashed into a New York City neighborhood shortly after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five more on the ground.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Liftoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liftoff. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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