That, he said, is how the office of space science got "stuck with the big platform."

It all seems to be designed as one big data-harvesting platform.

It was big, perhaps five or six times the size of the Orion platforms.

They came to an elevator set into the rock wall, a big open platform for carrying freight.

"These big platforms need fabulous stories like this one," he said.

And someone who wants to change the world can do it without a big platform or high-profile byline.

These bands really haven't had a big platform to say hey, here we are, here's our music.

Since then she has performed on various big platforms.

As always there are outdoor performances on platforms big and small.

And at the social level, it means that millions of those inspired to create have a big new platform with which they shape our culture.