For Elon Musk, the CEO and chief designer at SpaceX, Tuesday's lift-off was a special moment.
In 1986, seven astronauts died after the Challenger space shuttle exploded 72 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral.
The lift-off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana was originally scheduled for 23:06 local time on Friday (02:06 GMT, Saturday).
If Glenn was rattled by last week's lift-off he didn't say, but from the ground, the trip to orbit looked smooth.
Oil wants to blast off but the lift-off is heavy and forced.
"This mission represents the power of teamwork, commitment and exploration, " the commander said in a radio call to launch controllers moments before lift-off.
The Zenit-3SL rocket, which was being operated from a floating pad south of the Hawaiian islands, failed 40 seconds after the lift-off at 06:56 GMT.
Mike Huckabee's conservative campaign never really achieved lift-off in the primaries.
State media say the lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT).
Indeed, the recent economic lift-off can be explained in good part by the competitiveness of French exports, caused in turn by the weakness of the new currency.
The research team is currently investigating a laser lift-off technology to facilitate the mass production of flexible LIBs and 3D stacking structures to enhance charge density of batteries.
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The rocket had been due to take off on Wednesday, but lift-off was cancelled three hours before launch after fire extinguishing fluids were detected leaking from parts of the equipment.
"The evening only achieves the kind of deliriously silly and joyous lift-off that you really, really want from this kind of show - and more than once - at the encore, " summed up Paul Taylor in The Independent.
Lift-off from the Kourou spaceport occurred at 18 hours, 50 minutes and 55 seconds local time (2150.55 GMT) - the instant needed to put the truck on the right path to catch the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday next week.
The acceleration of lift-off would not kill something that size, and if a rock is large enough, the heat generated as it is thrown clear will be negligible except at its surface where, if anything, melting may even produce an airtight skin to protect any microbes deeper down from the unpleasant vacuum of space.
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For the rest of us - marvelling at the heaviest vehicle ever to lift off the ground - it was nothing short of magic.
Both and silver are still locked in trading ranges, as they did not get much of a lift from the sell-off in stocks.
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The GTS's star attraction is its torque-rich 4.8-liter V8, the same dry-sump, alloy-block engine as in the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4S but let off the leash a bit, with a higher redline (7, 100-rpm fuel shut-off), lumpier cam-lift logic, more aggressive transmission software (quicker, harder shifts available from the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), and additional cold-air boxes with active shutters behind lower lateral bumper intakes.
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The Capitals got a lift while killing off a delay-of-game penalty to John Carlson early in the third period.
In the most concentrated areas, he says, it could be compared to products you would clean your kitchen with, causing dry or cracked skin, or - in cases of prolonged contact - it can "lift off the top layer of your skin".
New joints in the robot's base and lower back enable RIBA-II to crouch down and lift a patient off a futon at floor level (Figure 1), the most physically strenuous task for care-givers and one that RIBA was not able to do.
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To boost domestic oil supply, Mr McCain wants to lift the long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts (although, unlike Sarah Palin, he would keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-limits).
Sehwag's early dismissal - caught behind by Tim Paine off Ben Hilfenhaus for seven - gave Australia the lift they needed after losing their last three wickets for only 21 runs on the morning of the fifth day.
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The trade-off, then, is to lift offshore drilling restrictions in certain areas.
One by one, a lift truck is placing them carefully on top of squared-off black-and-white-striped steel pillars.
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Joanne Maguire, overall head of the company's space programs, said in an interview that the Orion capsule is slated to blast off on top of a heavy-lift version of the U.S. military's Delta IV rocket.
Developed by researchers at RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI), the new robot can lift a patient up to 80kg in weight off floor-level bedding and into a wheelchair, freeing care facility personnel of one of their most difficult and energy-consuming tasks.
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