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Spaceport

A spaceport is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with airport for aircraft.

Examples of spaceports:

Baikonur cosmodrome
Kennedy Space Center
Centre Spatial Guyanais at Kourou.
Plesetsk cosmodrome
Vandenberg AFB, California

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