Earth's gravity is greater, our space program is a pitiable thing, our rockets can barely lift themselves.

With a blast of fire, the auxiliary rockets lifted the Cosmic Sailer from its pad.

Then a solid-fuel rocket attached to Magellan is to fire and lift the unmanned craft into a trajectory for the 466-day journey to map Venus, Earth's nearest planetary neighbor.

Your rockets can't lift you.

Then a solid-fuel rocket attached to the spacecraft is to fire and lift the Magellan on a 15-month trajectory to Venus.

A few final tongues of it licked the ground, then the rocket lifted completely into the air.

With these performance standards, he believed a rocket could lift a weight of 0.45 kg to a height of 373 km with an initial launch weight of only 40.64 kg.

Mr. Aftergood said industry studies showed that a nuclear rocket could lift payloads of about 70 tons into a low orbit of the earth.

The great rocket lifted.

The rocket lifted off the launching pad, and blasted off into space.