Rocket in sentence

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What we're talking about today is also rocket science.

Years later, the boy from that cramped mud hut would grow up to be the man in that cramped capsule on the tip of a rocket who volunteered to be launched into outer space, the first one of any of us to really physically leave this planet.

That's me shooting, and I'm a fairly mediocre operator, so I got that nice sense of verisimilitude, of a kind of, you know, following the rocket all the way down, and giving that little sort of edge, I was desperately trying to keep it in frame.

So what I got from him is, he turned to me and said, "You would never, ever design a rocket like that.

You would never have a rocket go up while the gantry arms are going out.

You would never, ever design a rocket like that."

He remembered that was a perfectly safe sort of gantry system, perfectly safe rocket launch, because he's sitting in a rocket that has, like, a hundred thousand pounds of thrust, built by the lowest bidder.

Now, none of this is rocket science.

MO: It's not rocket science.

I mean, lexicography is not rocket science.

So again, lexicography is not rocket science.

But even if it were, rocket science is being done by dedicated amateurs these days.

This is rocket science, but it's not hard rocket science.

We have landed a rocket ship on an asteroid.

And so even a modern rocket ship these days actually uses Internet protocol to talk from one end of the rocket ship to the other.

In fact, we applied a lot of rocket design techniques to make the car light despite having a very large battery pack.

The goal of SpaceX is to try to advance rocket technology, and in particular to try to crack a problem that I think is vital for humanity to become a space-faring civilization, which is to have a rapidly and fully reusable rocket.

CA: So you've somehow slashed the cost of building a rocket by 75 percent, depending on how you calculate it.

The space shuttle was an attempt at a reusable rocket, but even the main tank of the space shuttle was thrown away every time, and the parts that were reusable took a 10,000-person group nine months to refurbish for flight.

So it's important that the rocket stages be able to come back, to be able to return to the launch site and be ready to launch again within a matter of hours.

percent of the cost of the rocket.

So it's possible to achieve, let's say, roughly 100-fold improvement in the cost of spaceflight if you can effectively reuse the rocket.

We dressed a cowboy as Johnny Cash and bolted the mannequin to the rocket.

But I think I get to come back to this, because imagine having a compact reactor in a rocket that produces 50 to 100 megawatts.

That is the rocket designer's dream.

That could power a rocket there.

We have applied this theory early on, that was our first success, to the diagnostic of the rupture of key elements on the iron rocket.

But there's an even more inspiring journey propelled by something more powerful than rocket engines, where the passengers aren't just three astronauts but all of humanity.

This brings us to the second part of our rocket metaphor: the steering.

This brings us to the third part of our rocket metaphor: the destination.

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