blast off
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In the fourth, he mashed a two-run blast off the right-field scoreboard for his third multi-homer game of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
China, after all, is scheduled to put men on the moon by 2030, though not before Artemis III and IV blast off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
I was filled with the same hope I had as a pre-teen watching Apollo 11 blast off for the historic moon landing.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
The rocket had been set to blast off in March, but after a helium leak was discovered it was returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for repairs.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
We’d huddle together in a shuttle constructed out of chairs and bedsheets, and in T minus ten we’d blast off into space, visit the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and beyond.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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