Lunar Launch Site

Spaceport

A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft. The word spaceport—and even more so cosmodrome—has traditionally referred to sites capable of launching spacecraft into Earth's orbit or on interplanetary trajectories. However, rocket launch sites for sub-orbital spaceflights are also sometimes called spaceports, especially as new and proposed facilities for suborbital commercial spaceflight are often branded as "spaceports". Space stations and proposed future lunar bases are also sometimes referred to as spaceports, particularly when envisioned as nodes for further interplanetary travel.

lunar

Adjective

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
2. Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.

Noun

1. The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.
2. An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.

launch

Verb

1. To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
2. To pierce with, or as with, a lance.

Noun

1. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
2. The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).

site

Noun

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

Verb

1. To situate or place a building or construction project.