Noun
a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
Source: WordNetThe excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad. Alan Shepard
I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced. Wally Schirra
The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad. Isabel Yosito
Among them was Neil Wight, a machinist from Buffalo, New York, who staked out a view of the launch pad from a park in Titusville. Source: Internet
He has alleged that these people have begun to put their inflammatory scheme in motion and are poised to cast all sorts of aspersions, malice and propaganda with a primary objective to discredit President Lungu using Eastern Province as a launch pad. Source: Internet
For a mass equal to a Saturn V rocket, the escape velocity relative to the launch pad is 253.5 am /s (8 nanometers per year) faster than the escape velocity relative to the mutual center of mass. Source: Internet