Word: denser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more about Russia than Nikita had bargained on. In fact, his satellite was no more a spaceship than the previous Soviet satellite had been "an automatic interplanetary station." By the Russians' own admission, when the time came for the spaceship to descend, it would "burn up in the denser layers of the atmosphere" -a journey's end scarcely calculated to appeal to live astronauts...