Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shut. The leakage slowed but did not stop. Within an hour, helium pressure had dropped from 5,000 lbs. to 3,000 lbs. per sq. in. Dejectedly, some JPL scientists suggested that it would be best to fire Surveyor's retrorocket immediately, placing the craft in high earth orbit. It would be preferable to have a live spacecraft in orbit, they argued, than a dead one on the surface of the moon...
...That Be?, in which she makes up an impossible situation, asks herself "How can that be?" and is disappointed if she cannot concoct a way it could be. She is unable to explain, for instance, why "an upside-down-speedboat made of rose petals was in orbit around the moon...
...that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit is to be faced with the incomprehensible. But to know that he is traveling at 17,500 m.p.h. is a measure that means something to an earthling who must watch the "60 m.p.h." speed-limit signs...
...least seven times in the past eleven months, mysterious Russian unmanned space shots launched from the Soviet cosmodrome at Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, have set off flurries of speculation among U.S. space and military experts. All seven seem to have been attempts to return payloads to earth in one orbit or less, and all have had un usually inclined elliptical orbits with abnormally low perigees...
...Russians are not talking. The first in the series, fired without announcement from Tyuratam on Sept. 17, 1966, was observed by U.S. space trackers to explode into more than 80 pieces before it could complete its first orbit...