Launch Control

The term launch control can refer to:

  • Launch control (automotive), an automotive control option
  • A spaceport, a rocket launch site
  • A missile launch control center, used to launch US ICBMs

There are also specific facilities that use the name Launch Control:

  • Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center

Famous quotes containing the words launch and/or control:

    Now launch the small ship, now as the body dies
    and life departs, launch out, the fragile soul
    in the fragile ship of courage, the ark of faith
    with its store of food and little cooking pans
    and change of clothes,
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    To try to control a nine-month-old’s clinginess by forcing him away is a mistake, because it counteracts a normal part of the child’s development. To think that the child is clinging to you because he is spoiled is nonsense. Clinginess is not a discipline issue, at least not in the sense of correcting a wrongdoing.
    Lawrence Balter (20th century)