SpaceX said the first-stage engine operated flawlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Third Failed SpaceX Launch] Reference

The first-stage motor was fired successfully on 3 April.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition]

"Should that be throwing off so much first-stage radiation?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Plough, begins first-stage human testing this month in the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At the first-stage flag is a vector direction arrow for the second stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

The boosters that we flew on, the first-stage boosters, were extremely smooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2005] Reference

I was, after about a week, well on my way to a first-stage Wikipedia dependency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Charms of Wikipedia] Reference

And everything went without hitch, and for a first-stage operation, I was pretty happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2007] Reference

Of course, there must be a first-stage treaty, by which the initial reductions will be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Noel-Baker - Nobel Lecture] Reference

At left, Gu Yuting of China returned a shot during the mixed teams first-stage match of table tennis Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chasing Youth Olympics] Reference

And no matter how much she griped to O'Brien, she did understand what a danger first-stage radiation could be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

We also thought we would always have two categories of teachers: first-stage teachers and seconds-stage teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH IN TOPES DE COLLANTES 19 JULY] Reference

At T minus 30 seconds, water pours from a system of pipes surrounding the first-stage engine, dampening vibrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth's Orbit] Reference

A man's stated preference for cuddling on anything, especially during first-stage conversation, gives me the skeevies.    From Wordnik.com.  [blog: No cuddles, no reading aloud, svp.] Reference

We are therefore more convinced of the rightness of our work when first-stage relief has given place to rehabilitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends Service Council - Nobel Lecture] Reference

One heavily gloved volunteer restrained the penguin, while the second volunteer sprayed it with a first-stage degreaser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference

With that, Estelle knew they had found their new first-stage degreaser, and asked Louis if he could produce more of the product.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference

"Mike, Dave -- would you take that prisoner to my first-stage room, please, while I give our guests a brief tour of the dungeon?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference

In it, researchers scanned more than 30,000 patients with a computed tomography machine and found first-stage cancers in 407 of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrections Weaken Cancer Study] Reference

Or he could man up and say our analysis has always shown that an abort during first-stage flight is likely to result in loss of crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ares 1 Abort Study Update - NASA Watch] Reference

Mishin and kuznetsov did 4 launches of the N1 and its first-stage with nothing less than 30 engines, ending up in catastrophic failures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soyuz Blasts off with International Crew to build out ISS | Universe Today] Reference

The test flight objectives are focused on first-stage flight dynamics, controllability, and separation of the first and upper stages.    From Wordnik.com.  [$18.7 Billion For NASA in FY 2010 - NASA Watch] Reference

It's a medium-range ballistic missile, and a first-stage satellite launcher!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Airminded] Reference

It worked in a first-stage study of 10 patients in Sweden, researchers reported Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

LNA selection, in particular the first-stage LNA, greatly affects the BTS receiver's performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference

Sergent was 26th in the first-stage bunch sprint and 22nd in the last stage, an 18. 5km time trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

Of 2500 applications lodged with the ERA each year, only about 1000 go on to the first-stage investigative meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference