booster
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The Times, a longtime Mulholland booster, blamed “a faulty system which loads upon any man’s shoulders, no matter how broad, responsibilities that are too heavy for any man to bear.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The booster returned to Earth, but the upper stage stayed in space to push the landers onward.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
He maintains this isn't about usurping existing councils, but rather giving them a "booster pack".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Starship’s Super Heavy booster successfully carried out the high-thrust portion of a boost-back burn with all 33 Raptor 3 engines, before it ended the burn early, according to SpaceX.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The author James Michener, a local Bucks County celebrity and big Kennedy booster, was among them.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
That is roughly comparable to what Falcon Heavy can launch when none of its boosters are recovered.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
The Falcon 9 now launches about 150 times a year with boosters that are capable of being reused dozens of times.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Giant defense contractors could benefit from DSRB-backed financing, say boosters, because government budgets often fluctuate annually, raising funding uncertainty that can increase borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The independent senator from Vermont had been one of Platner’s biggest boosters throughout his successful Democratic primary campaign in Maine.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
The necessary dust would require 1,200 Saturn 5 rocket boosters to be transported from Earth to Mars; even then, the winds might blow the dust off the polar caps.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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