Despite many successful firings, American nuclear rockets did not fly before the space race ended.
It was launched in 1971, aboard an American rocket.
Bond overloads the nuclear reactor just as the American rocket is about to take off.
Frustratingly, we weren't allowed to film the American rocket under construction.
Shavetail was an experimental American rocket developed during the 1950s.
No comparable American rocket had yet been successfully tested.
American and European rockets have a much lower accident rate.
Older American rockets could not carry more than one satellite or 8,500 pounds.
In the last year or so, there have been six big failures of American rockets.
She remembered what the Russian had said about an American rocket.