1. Wimbledon has been a launch pad for so many players.

2. The rocket blew up on the launch pad.

3. She regards the job as a launch pad for her career in the media.

4. Neighbours, the show that was her launch pad, might have to be jettisoned.

5. Atlantis, resting on a Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Florida, has similar boosters.

6. The fully fuelled Saturn V sitting on the launch pad had a total mass some 56 times that of the Apollo spacecraft.

7. Iranian television showed the rocket on its desert launch pad, but did not show the actual lift-off . Few details were available about the rocket or its payload.

8. It's a launch pad for the most exciting new products, designs and trends.

9. The rocket exploded on the launch pad, burning alive and asphyxiating engineers, designers and officials.

10. The biggest concern is whether the launch pad was damaged lighting strike.

11. The rocket was exposed to the vagaries of the weather, and the launch pad was blocked for long periods of time.

12. Surely these forces can not result in the ship crawling off the launch pad?

13. However, the rocket was not allowed to leave the launch pad until full thrust was developed by each engine.

14. But there are signs that the protest may be the launch pad for a powerful and broadly based opposition.

15. Here the air-lock doors of a cargo bay; there a communications nacelle, a launch pad, a service hatch.

16. The images appear to show an intercontinental ballistic missile being moved by train from the capital to a launch pad at Musudan-ri in the north-east of the country.

17. Yi, Volkov and Kononenko will be off from the same launch pad as Gagarin.

18. The ROK's first space rocket was moved to its launch pad for scheduled blastoff on August 19, the state-run aerospace institute said Monday.

19. Actually no, but it was almost the case in November 2006, when a launch pad technician forgot to secure a door in the White Room leading to the space shuttle Endeavour just before launch.

20. That missile disintegrated less than a minute after leaving the launch pad.

21. If everything else goes well, Discovery should be moved to launch pad on 21 September and ready for lift-off on 1 November.

22. At ignition, it will pour a million liters of water onto the launch pad surface.

23. The South Korean military reported that a North Korean base just 12 kilometers across the sea placed surface-to-surface missiles on the launch pad.

24. A large crane dismantles a level of the fixed service structure (FSS) on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

25. NASA was worried the door, which is attached to the gantry structure of the launch pad, might swing wildly during liftoff and damage Endeavour as it blasted off.

26. The Ares I-X towers 327 feet (100 meters) above Launch Pad 39B, a launching site that until recently was used to fly space shuttles, and has been converted for the new booster.

27. If the North does test such an intercontinental ballistic missile again, American forces will have to consider blowing it up on the launch pad or shooting it out of the sky.

28. Americans will be barred from using Iraq as a launch pad to attack other countries.

29. A crane dismantles another section of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

30. NASA's Kepler spacecraft is on its way to the launch pad and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.

1. Wimbledon has been a launch pad for so many players.

31. The elevation and configuration of the launch pad also require consideration.

32. With a roar, it began to rise slowly from the launch pad.