launch pad

Instead, they saw music videos as a launch pad for a whole new artistic movement: virality.

He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.

Kelsey takes that riff further: "The show will be our ejector seat, our launch pad, our final disappearing act."

The first mission, Apollo 1, never got off the ground after a fire killed its crew on the launch pad.

The storms brought winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour and pelted areas near the launch pad with hailstones.