We listened to emotionally-charged accounts of a desperate and frustrating attempt to keep Challenger on the launch pad.
Shuttles often are rained on while sitting on the launch pad in Florida, but waterproofing protects the tiles.
He compared it to the Apollo 11 blaze that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 1967.
The first American in space, Alan Shepard, actually had no choice but to go in his suit while waiting on the launch pad.
Next, the declinists warned us about the ascendant Communist Soviet Union, which overran Eastern Europe and Asia, and whose missiles went up, unlike ours, which crashed on the launch pad.
In the case of the Challenger, the culprit was a simple O-ring that had become too brittle to do its job after a freezing night waiting on the launch pad.
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Viewing the Atlantis orbiter perched on the launch pad and protected by the service structure made it seem very fragile, even though it was made to travel over 100 times the speed of sound.
But this will require more than just the development of technologies to display the Internet on mobile devices, some of which are already on the launch-pad.
On Tuesday, a fresh Falcon 1 sat on the island launch pad with palm trees waving in the background.
People jostled on the green opposite launch pad 39B as they tried to get the best view.
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The vehicle left its launch pad on the Kwajalein Atoll at just after 2230 GMT.
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Crowds cheered the pair on as they lumbered to the launch pad in their space suits.
It takes weeks to transport, assemble, fuel, and prepare the Taepodong-2, giving U.S. forces many opportunities to destroy the missile on its large launch pad.
We eventually got to the Facebook Java app hidden inside the Applications folder -- apparently right-click on the D-pad should launch it but we had no luck with that.
Even more convenient, or distressing, or helpful, depending on your viewpoint, is the integration of whatever versions of Windows you have installed on your Mac with the Dock, the onscreen launch pad for Mac software that debuted with OS X.
The Japanese developer and manager has its sights set on Paris as a launch pad for European expansion, according to the head of the firm's business in Europe.
It has also served as a launch-pad for other hits on the network, including The Big Bang Theory and newcomer Mike and Molly.
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Now he will want to capitalise on his new strong position and use the rally as the launch pad for the general election.
Ireland relies, as a launch-pad for multinationals, on its place in the EU. It survives on liquidity from the European Central Bank, and in any case cannot afford to cut itself off from Europe.
Even the Space Shuttle, about to be retired after 30 years of service, was itself three years late to the launch pad, and that was after Shuttle main engines blew up on their test stands.
The KN-08 missile can be moved around the country and hidden, making it harder to detect compared to a missile on a launch pad.
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The space industry of 2006 is like a rocket about to launch on its maiden voyage--nobody knows whether it will take off or just blow up on the pad.
It's the first carrier anywhere to launch the Rich Communication Services standard on LTE, which provides a perpetually synced contact list that serves as the launching pad for everything else.
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