booster
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The booster has 33 rocket engines, each producing more than 8,000 tons of thrust.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
It was Blue Origin’s third launch of the New Glenn rocket and its first attempt to reuse its booster.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026
Its booster successfully landed on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean about nine minutes and 30 seconds after takeoff.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
The rocket’s upper stage made it to orbit, achieving the flight’s main goal, though the booster wasn’t recaptured for reuse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
But some I did not know; for example, I knew practically nothing about the Atlas booster, the one that was used to put a Mercury spacecraft into orbit.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
Vocabulary lists containing booster
"Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center," Vocabulary from the speech
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"Laws are not the only way to boost immunization”: an editorial from Nature
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