liftoff

Discovery, which is slated for liftoff at 4: 50 p. m. EST Thursday, is due to arrive Saturday for a week-long stay.

发现号，将于美国东部标准时间星期四下午4：50升空，预计星期六到达，并停靠一个星期。

The primary stage of a multistage rocket that provides the main thrust for launch, liftoff , and initial flight .

多级火箭的第一级，为发射、升空和最初飞行提供主要推力。

Former shuttle commander Charles Bolden was confirmed by the Senate less than two hours after Endeavour's liftoff.

在奋进号发射不到2个小时，参议员批准了前航天飞机指挥官CharlesBolden。

U. S. early-warning satellites would have detected hot rocket exhaust soon after liftoff, but by then it would have been too late.

升空不久，美国预警卫星会监测到火箭散发的热度，但那就太晚了。

say new video provides fresh evidence of how the spacecraft may have been damaged during liftoff.

说，新的录像为航天飞机在起飞阶段就可能已受到某种损坏的说法提供了最新证据。

But controllers lost communication with it at 137 seconds after liftoff, when the rocket was at a height of 70 kilometers.

不过，在火箭升空137秒钟、进入距离地面70公里的高度后，地面控制中心与之失去了联系。

Engineers aborted the launch Wednesday less than eight minutes before the scheduled liftoff from the Naro Space Center south of Seoul.

火箭发射前八分钟工程师突然放弃发射。火箭原计划星期三从首尔以南的罗老航天中心发射。

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

韩国计划发射其首枚太空火箭前几分钟，工程人员决定推迟发射。

Two years earlier, a rocket exploded in this launch site after liftoff and killed several people on the ground.

因为两天前，一枚火箭点火后在发射场地爆炸，造成地面上几人遇难。

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

非常巧合，1996年Wakata进行第一次航空飞行时，在发射之前，也发现有蝙蝠附着在航天飞机燃料箱上。

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

奋进号原定于4月29日最后一次升空，但发射由于电子系统方面的问题被迫推迟，5月16日的发射进展顺利，没有发生任何重大故障。

sleeping, unpowered, waiting for us to power it up for liftoff.

休眠，没有动力，等待着我们将它发射升空。

NASA delayed a Tuesday morning liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery by a day because of stormy weather at the Florida launch site.

由于Florida发射站多雨的原因，美国宇航局推迟了一天原定于周二早上发现号航天飞机的起飞时间。

But Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach says some shuttle watchers probably will not return for the mid-May liftoff.

但航天飞机发射主管迈克莱茵巴克认为一些航天飞机观察者可能不会再观看五月中旬的升空。

Check ignition and may God's love be with you, 1, liftoff.

检查点火装置，愿上帝与你同在（一，发射！）

It's standard procedure the day after launch to check for any damage that may have occurred during liftoff.

这是航天飞机发射后的标准检查程序，目的是检查航天飞机是否在发射过程中有部件受损。

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.

多数情况下，大天鹅从水面上起飞，但在坚硬的地面上也能起飞，不过需要一小段助跑，还要不停地拍打巨大的翅膀获得抬升力。

To prevent this, which underwater divers call the bends, Fournier will breathe pure oxygen for two to three hours before liftoff.

为了防止这种被潜水员称为弯曲病的病症发生，弗尔涅会在升空前呼吸2到3分钟的纯氧。

And, indeed, it was nearly three hours on the tarmac before liftoff.

事实上飞机在停机坪上又等了近三个小时才终于起飞。

And, therefore, you're either not lending to them or lending under such onerous terms that the economy can't get any liftoff.

结果，你们要么就是拒绝贷款给他们，要么就是附加繁重苛刻的条件贷款给他们，国家经济因此不能得到提振。