This meant the Apollo Eight astronauts could fire the rocket that would send them from Earth orbit toward the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Two hours after Apollo Thirteen went around the moon, the astronauts fired the rocket for five minutes.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Five hours after the explosion, flight controllers advised firing the rocket for thirty-five seconds.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

A tiny part at the bottom of the rocket had fallen out too early.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The rocket continued to push the spacecraft on its path.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The rocket scientist is a different kind of hero.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The attempt failed. The rocket exploded during the launch.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The computers immediately shut off the rocket engines.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The rocket was an army Jupiter.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Finally,they did start the rocket.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The rocket did not explode.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The Iron Dome will help neutralize the rocket threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

An eyewitness gave this account to Israel Radio: (SAYING) "Suddenly there was a boom, as if the rocket was falling on my head."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Defense officials warn that the system will not completely eliminate the rocket threat from Lebanon and Gaza.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Japan has announced it will extend its unilateral sanctions against North Korea if it launches the rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

It has threatened war if Japan follows through on its vow to shoot down the rocket if it appears to threaten Japanese territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

So this year NASA sent up a spacecraft and sent the rocket stage right into the moon to 'bomb' the moon, basically,and see what came up.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

(Speaking) "North Korea was showing all its cards to the Obama administration, both the rocket test and the nuclear test, giving the United States a choice between nuclear negotiations or nuclear proliferation,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Its Titan rocket could lift three times as much weight into space as the Atlas rocket used for the Mercury flights.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Astronauts Frank Borman,James Lovell and William Anders were in the spacecraft at the top of the Saturn Five rocket.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

They had to do this by firing the lunar module rocket engine for just the right amount of time.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Air Force pilot Gordon Cooper became an expert on the Redstone Rocket that would launch Mercury astronauts on short training flights.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

There were some concerns about the safety of the huge Redstone rocket that was to carry the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

In nineteen fifty-six, the United States launched a Jupiter military rocket that flew more than five thousand kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The huge Saturn rocket, as tall as a thirty-six-floor building, was the heaviest thing ever to leave Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08