So it was that we delivered him, not to the FBI in Washington, but to his own doorstep at a launching base somewhere deep in his own country.

Mr. O'Malley, who is now 90 and still living near the launching base, said he found "a lot of people depressed, really depressed," when he arrived after the fire.

The Allies knew nothing about the V-3 but identified the site as a possible launching base for V-2 ballistic missiles, based on reconnaissance photographs and fragmentary intelligence from French sources.

The CLA is the closest launching base to the equator.

U.S. Denies Aiding Iraq Iran has been able to use the peninsula as a launching base for Chinese-made Silkworm missiles aimed at Kuwait.

An Ariane 4, an unmanned expendable rocket, blasted off from the European Space Agency's launching base in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America.

The 13-nation European Space Agency has its launching base at Kourou, the mainland town of 11,000 people across from Devil's Island.

The most important factor is its closeness to the Equator - Alcântara is the closest launching base to the Equator.

They have a launching base in Brazil now, don't they?

"Are we going to the launching base at Boothia, where the manned rockets go up?"