That launch marked the inauguration of a new space centre, at an unidentified desert location, which included an underground control station and satellite launch pad.
Indian scientists have put rockets into space, but on the land beyond the launch pad transport is largely by bullock-cart.
A shuttle on the launch pad measures 184 feet (56 meters) tall from the tip of the external tank down to the aft skirts of its twin solid rocket boosters.
The reporters reported that the launch pad was on fire after the launch.
The mainland is the launch pad for the bridge structure emerging from the ground and approach road.
NASA and invited guests marked the 50th anniversary of Shepard's flight on Thursday with a re-broadcast of the countdown, launch and mission at his Cape Canaveral, Fla., launch pad.
The military has not been able to determine the exact location of the launch pad.
The book was written while Barack Obama's career was still on the launch pad, yet it describes with uncanny prescience the atmosphere that allowed him to soar.
Remnants of demolished buildings and pieces of rusty metal dot the landscape along the roads to the 9 launch pads.
One resulted in an engine explosion that scattered debris and contamination over the Baikonur launch pad in one of the worst accidents in Soviet space history.
You can go down to the launch pad and actually go up several floors of the launch pad and see where the astronauts would walk and where they would go as they were boarding the shuttle.
The rocket exploded on the launch pad, burning alive and asphyxiating engineers, designers and officials.
I believe that the soon-to-open USA Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo is the perfect launch pad for the next 30 years of our consulate.
Currently the world? S tallest booster in service, the Ares I-X rolled out to the launch pad early Tuesday and is slated to blast off Oct. 27 at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) on a short demonstration flight.
Few of us bothered to consider the numerous near-disasters during those successful flights; engiues coming close to ecplosion before snuffing out in flight, last-second aborts on the launch pad, computer failures in orbit.
