1. The lift-off was delayed about seven minutes.

2. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. We have lift-off!

3. The rocket tumbled out of control shortly after lift-off.

4. Ten minutes to lift-off.

5. Lift-off is always the moment of truth for a new rocket.

6. Workers began fueling the spaceship for liftoff.

7. Lift-off is set for 10:55 a.m.

8. I did a quick equipment check, like an astronaut preparing for lift-off.

9. Its lift on, lift-off operations there will now also be spread across two container terminals and an inland storage site.

10. Launch attempts were scrubbed seconds before liftoff on Thursday and Friday because of technical glitches.

11. With just minutes to go before liftoff, South Korean engineers postponed the launch of the country's first space-bound rocket.

12. When NASA shuttles liftoff,[http://] they actually ignite their three main engines six seconds early to begin building up thrust before the countdown clock hits zero.

13. If Atlantis launches on July 8, liftoff would take place at 11:40 a.m.

14. But just two hours after liftoff, the satellite went missing, according to Russia's Itar-Tass and Interfax news agencies.

15. Liftoff occurred on the last day of the launch window that began August 27.

16. Look at the RSS format in Listing 1, which uses a sample document from the NASA "Liftoff News" feed.

17. Yesterday's shuttle launch was scrubbed just ten minutes before liftoff.

18. The big trimotor gathered speed and roared off down the harbor for more than a mile but never got close to liftoff.

19. It weighed 6.5 million pounds (3 million kg) fully fueled at liftoff.

20. Unlike the last launch attempt on April 29, when electrical problems forced a delay, Monday's liftoff occurred without any major hitches.

21. One of these valves — which maintain tank pressure during liftoff — broke during the last shuttle launch in November.

22. Coincidentally, the last time a bat perched itself on a space shuttle tank, right before liftoff, was Wakata's first flight in 1996.

23. The insulating foam prevents ice from forming on the tank when it is filled with 500,000 gallons (1.9 million liters) of supercold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen before liftoff.

24. Germany dual-system vocational education is rated as the world first-class, and plays a enormous role for the economic liftoff of Germany.

25. The possibility of storms had raised doubt about whether the launch would take place as planned, but NASA gave the shuttle a "go" for launch a few minutes before liftoff.

26. The two-stage Naro rocket operated normally during and after liftoff from the country's space center, Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byong-man said.

27. NASA was worried the door, which is attached to the gantry structure of the launch pad, might swing wildly during liftoff and damage Endeavour as it blasted off.

28. Why does a space shuttle get hotter on reentry than on liftoff?

29. The six crew members flew back to the Kennedy Space Center ahead of Wednesday's planned liftoff.

30. Here, the shuttle is mounted on a mobile launchpad weeks before its liftoff.

31. On board with Ansari were Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, who were to join German astronaut Thomas Reiter on the station just over 48 hours after liftoff.

32. That is seen as a strong indicator liftoff is on track to proceed between April 4th and 8th, as the North has announced.

33. Columbia was destroyed during re-entry in 2003 because of a hole in its wing, left there by flyaway foam at liftoff.

34. For an Aug. 5 liftoff, the launch window opens at 8:34 a.m. PDT (11:34 a.m.

35. The shuttle Endeavour's launch was scrubbed last Friday only hours before liftoff.

36. Whooper swans take off mostly on water, but can do so on solid ground, using a short run and beating their massive wings to achieve liftoff.

37. Anousheh Ansari was accompanied by a US-Russian crew on the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule, which entered orbit about 10 minutes after liftoff from the Russian cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.