What is "launching pad"

Usage examples of "launching pad".

I wandered aimlessly off to inspect the extent of the damage caused by the rocket leaving the launching pad.

The roof of the service bay had been blown apart, leaving a clear view up to the launching pad, thence through the terminal to space itself.

Tommy had not yet gained enough elevation to be able to see over intervening hills to the 350-foot concrete tower that marked Slick Six, the space shuttle's launching pad north of Point Arguello.

The second Soviet space vehicle lifted from the launching pad but failed immediately.

Some kind of tender or transport hauling it up off the launching pad.

On the broad courtyard once used as a launching pad by the Alliance, Luke's old X‑.

Someone had sketched a knight in armor with crayon right on the concrete of the launching pad.

No one was seen near the launching pad between the time the rocket was fired and the discovery of the sketch on our return from the gunnery range.

But he was only an intermediate step for Nimitz, a launching pad from which to redirect his trajectory, not his true objective, and he leapt from his first victim to hit another SS guard in the chest.

He packed his little collection of clothes and toiletries, and took the subway out to the launching pad, and asked Monica for the use of one of the single-person blimp-gliders.

From this side of the building the launching pad couldn't be seen.