Serving in AmeriCorps was the launch pad for a career that I never imagined possible.
Crowds cheered the pair on as they lumbered to the launch pad in their space suits.
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.
This small innovation was the launch pad for the small bakery of Mohammad Ghaziri also known as Barbar.
The terrain below the rocket is only a few kilometers away from the launch pad, the institute said.
He compared it to the Apollo 11 blaze that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 1967.
The rocket left the launch pad at 1851 local Kourou time (2151 GMT).
He sits inside a hexagonal shape - the same shape, says Weidner, as the launch pad area of Apollo 11.
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Most of the engineering views of the shuttle launch come from still and video cameras within 20 miles of the launch pad.
The first American in space, Alan Shepard, actually had no choice but to go in his suit while waiting on the launch pad.
Now he will want to capitalise on his new strong position and use the rally as the launch pad for the general election.
My cameraman and I chose a spot that was clear of other people, with a nice view of the launch pad, across a swamp.
Before anyone approaches the launch pad, anything loose must be tethered.
"Whether the testing of large rocket motors or construction at the launch pad are in preparation for such activities remains unclear at this point, " it said.
In particular he refused funding from the US, as Miami has long been the launch pad for attempts by Cuban exiles to oust the Castros from power.
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Then there was a silence and then suddenly there's this dazzling light that flashes at you from the base of the launch pad - and that's ignition.
Experts will identify effective child survival strategies and investments and will serve as the launch pad for activities to assess progress and sustain momentum toward this important goal.
Everything looked good except the skies over the launch pad.
That meant that as long as I continued working at The Launch Pad, I would be unable to compete or test my business plan against the ideas of others.
Nokia's Ovi portal is the launch pad for its offerings, and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIMM) has carved out a niche with e-mail, and is branching into multimedia.
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The bid also involves eight of South Africa's neighbours Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia and could be the launch pad for a wider scientific renaissance in Africa.
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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.
Depending on the effects of Tropical Storm Ernesto on Florida's Kennedy Space Center, a new launch date for Atlantis could be set once storm damage is evaluated and work resumes at the launch pad.
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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.
If TiME is to make it off the launch pad it will have to grasp one of the smaller mission opportunities that Nasa periodically offers, such as the one it runs under its Discovery Class programme.
One rocket leaves the launch pad, executes a 90-degree turn about 50 feet off the ground, streaks at several hundred miles an hour straight toward a group of landsailers, crashing just short of them in a cloud of white dust.
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