And, regardless of the timing of the explosions, the rockets burned so fiercely that they almost invariably set the ships afire.

As part of the Green Team, he covered the launch phase up to translunar injection, the rocket burn that sent Apollo 8 to the Moon.

During this time the crew had to release the subsatellite and prepare for the rocket burn that would send them home.

The ship hurtled backward while its rockets burned and burned.

When their rockets burned out they vanished.

In the original engine designs the rocket had only one throttle setting, "full on", and burned through its fuel in a few minutes.

This rocket burned ethyl alcohol diluted with water with a liquid oxygen oxidizer.

He forced himself to go on breathing and keep his head still, remembering that the rockets only burned for thirty seconds.

The Albion was close to the ground now, its rockets burning the concrete strip.

The lower rockets, jetting the hot gases, burned them slightly.