The Platform couldn't hope to reach its orbit without them.
The second was launched on 25 October 1962, but failed to reach orbit.
The third flight on 30 January 2013 successfully reached orbit.
It was the first time a Progress spacecraft had failed to reach orbit.
Nobody can punch from the surface; it'd take a good ten minutes for anything taking off to reach orbit, let alone beyond.
"You're aware that we have no assurances the people on the ground will ever be able to reach orbit."
Let me think them over, and perhaps by the time we reach orbit, they'll make sense to me.
The performance was called a success at the time, even though the payload failed to reach orbit.
With the cone still in place, the rocket was too heavy to reach orbit.
He'd found the time to talk with her before they reached orbit here, and she had changed her mind about leaving.