1.   As soon as I put the canoe in the water, geese near the launching site honked mightily and flew away.

2.   Atlantis, with a crew of six, blasted into chilly, pre-dawn skies Sunday on flaming rockets that remained visible from the launching site for almost eight minutes.

3.   After I returned to the launching site and loaded the canoe back on my car, I took a walk along an old canal path that parallels the marsh.

4.   But, like the parsonage, it was as much a home to enjoy as a launching site for excursions.

5.   He concluded that the Soviets had begun using a new launching site.

6.   However that dispute is resolved, federal agents appear to be exploring whether this suburb of Washington was among the launching sites of the attacks.

7.   Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles and tear down the launching sites.

8.   Lehner said the Pentagon also intended to conduct an environmental assessment of plans to use a commercial launching site on Kodiak Island as part of the test range.

9.   Mrs. Morgan was among the thousands of spectators near the launching site in Cape Canaveral, Fla., who witnessed the explosion.

10.   The detailed color photographs were supposedly taken by a construction worker at the Jiuquan launching site near the Gobi desert.