Syntax for a single-line Bash infinite while loop

Question

I am having trouble coming up with the right combination of semicolons and/or braces. I\'d like to do this, but as a one-liner from the command line:

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Answer 1

I like to use the semicolons only for the WHILE statement, and the && operator to make the loop do more than one thing...

So I always do it like this

while true ; do echo Launching Spaceship into orbit && sleep 5s && /usr/bin/launch-mechanism && echo Launching in T-5 && sleep 1s && echo T-4 && sleep 1s && echo T-3 && sleep 1s && echo T-2 && sleep 1s && echo T-1 && sleep 1s && echo liftoff ; done