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launch pad

noun as in platform for vehicle launch

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Musk and Bezos have fought over a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, battled over a patent over landing rockets and have argued over which of them actually pulled off that feat first.

In 2013, when SpaceX was in talks to lease launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center from NASA, Blue Origin stepped in to say it wanted a shot to compete for the pad.

Ingenuity took its fourth flight on April 30 to scout for a new launch pad.

Then, it will at last be rolled out to the launch pad in preparation for an uncrewed test flight around the moon at the end of this year or the beginning of next.

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Another exploded on the launch pad ahead of an engine test in 2016.

Instead, they saw music videos as a launch pad for a whole new artistic movement: virality.

He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.

Kelsey takes that riff further: "The show will be our ejector seat, our launch pad, our final disappearing act."

The first mission, Apollo 1, never got off the ground after a fire killed its crew on the launch pad.

The storms brought winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour and pelted areas near the launch pad with hailstones.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to launch pad, such as: launching pad, firing table, launching platform, launching rack, and rocket platform.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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