Word: launchpad
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...release. “I think it was very fitting and appropriate that Desmond Tutu was chosen and invited to be the keynote speaker,” Kathleen S. Molony, director of the fellows program at the center, said after the talk. “It was a great launchpad for our whole conference...
...territory as an air base in exchange for a big discount on Polaris nuclear missiles. Five years later, hundreds of Navy Seabees arrived by ship and began pouring the 12,000-ft. (3,600 m) runway that would become a bulwark of American cold war strategy and a key launchpad for the first and second Gulf wars and the invasion of Afghanistan...
Like any other spacecraft, Dawn will have to be muscled off its launchpad by a conventional rocket burning conventional propellant. Once it climbs to near Earth space, however, everything will change. Of all the things that add weight to a spacecraft, fuel presents the most problems. The farther you're going, the more propellant you need, but every pound of it you add means more mass the engine must propel, which requires more fuel still, and on and on. A spacecraft like Dawn, which is designed not just to fly by its two targets but also to settle into orbit...
Most of Branson's competitors are intent on rocketing right off the launchpad. But Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies in lazy circles up to 50,000 ft.--spy-plane territory--attached to a huge turbojet launch plane. Then SpaceShipTwo drops away and rockets off into space at 3,500 m.p.h. on its laughing-gas engine. Aboard the spaceship the two pilots will cut the rockets and the ship will coast up to 80 miles, well outside the atmosphere. For 4 min., the six passengers (now astronauts!) can unstrap and float weightless around the cabin. Earth will look like a shiny...
...three “American Pie” films, as well as creating the “Project Greenlight” television series with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Moore didn’t study film at Harvard, but he cites it as an important launchpad for his Hollywood career. “I got into television production when I was at Harvard. Harvard was very important in that I met most of my contacts who gave me my first jobs and who I now work with,” Moore says.It was also at Harvard that Moore first...