Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An installation for sheltering, testing, maintaining, and launching spacecraft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a facility where vehicles are launched into space.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A site for
launching spacecraft .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Commercial flights will fly out of New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction.
Virgin's SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First Solo Glide Flight AP 2010
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Commercial flights will depart from New Mexico, where a spaceport is under construction.
Rocket makes glide flight in next step toward space tourism Associated Press 2010
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Commercial flights will fly out of New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction.
Virgin's SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First Solo Glide Flight AP 2010
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Commercial flights will fly out of New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction.
Virgin's SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First Solo Glide Flight AP 2010
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Commercial flights will fly out of New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction.
Virgin's SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First Solo Glide Flight AP 2010
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The spaceport is being built about midway between Van Horn and the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
Jeff Bezos to Build ”Secret” West Texas Spaceport | Impact Lab 2006
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The New Mexico spaceport is to be environmentally friendly in consideration of the local surroundings, featuring an eye looking up into space, Branson said.
A wonder of the world? Edward Willett 2006
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The New Mexico spaceport is to be environmentally friendly in consideration of the local surroundings, featuring an eye looking up into space, Branson said.
Archive 2006-01-01 Edward Willett 2006
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The spaceport is slated to be built in Sandy Mines on Cape Breton, in the eastern province of Nova Scotia, the New Scientist reported.
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The spaceport is predicted to bring as many as 4,000 jobs to the region.
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