When Thor, Rocket, and Groot traveled to Nidavellir to craft Stormbreaker, the only way they were going to successfully make the weapon was if they repaired and restarted the forge somehow.

Operation Echo A12, they said, was highly successful —but the patient died. The operation began when a Thor rocket took off from Cape Canaveral just before dawn carrying a canister containing a ...

the Agena rocket has been used in its original single-shot version as the second stage of the Thor rocket, which has successfully injected six of the eight Discoverer satellites into polar orbits.