[Ads-l] Antedating of "Launch Pad"

[Shapiro, Fred]

launch pad (OED 1960)

1957 Wash. Post 21 Nov. A4 in A Dictionary of the Space Age 115
J. Paul Walsh, deputy director of Project Vanguard, told a news conference that the test of the important second section was carried out on a launch pad at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.

Fred Shapiro

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