This is that rocket going up.

这会是那支火箭更上一层楼的机会。

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The weather was good. The scientists had planned that part of the rocket would fall into the ocean after the launch.

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

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

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"There's no guarantee even if Hamas is removed from power in Gaza that rocket fire will not continue, " says Nicolas Pelham of the ICG.

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For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: "We need to make sure that the rocket that works well" on the ground, he said, performs equally well in the air.

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Jeff Greason, the president of XCOR Aerospace, a company that makes rocket engines for suborbital craft, worries that the X Prize, with its attached conditions, may not in practice lead to the right sort of craft being built.

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