Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steely Embrace. That dark news shadowed a day that had actually seen a considerable technical triumph. The most important part of the flight was the docking maneuver, and Armstrong and Scott were still in their first orbit when they began the complicated exercise in space navigation. By 4:21 p.m. E.S.T., during Gemini 8's third revolution over the Pacific, Armstrong reported: "Object in sight." There was the Agena, 76 miles ahead, its beacon flashing against the dark sky. After gradually closing the gap, Gemini 8 eased up and in front of the Agena, while swinging around so that...
Around the time that Astronauts Armstrong and Scott were ordered to return to earth after less than a day in orbit, two Russian space travelers were finishing a much longer flight. After 22 days in orbit in their Cosmos 110 satellite-longer than any other living beings have spent in space-Cosmodogs Veterok and Ugolyok were brought down to a safe landing in Russian Central Asia. Still wearing their space jackets, they were promptly flown to Moscow for a triumphant TV appearance...
...announcement from the Soviet Union was characteristically terse. Two dogs had been blasted into orbit aboard the spaceship Cosmos 110 "to conduct biological tests." Beyond that the Russians said practically nothing. The intended length of the trip, the breed and sex of the dogs, the size and weight of the spacecraft, whether the experiment was concerned directly with travel to the moon or with lengthy earth orbit, whether an attempt would be made to bring the dogs back-all such matters remained a secret. Clearly the Russians were putting on the dogs to steal headlines from the Saturn IB launch...
...that did not take it nearly so far north and south. This might have been an attempt to avoid the hazards of an emergency landing in remote snowbound areas. The 51° angle, however, was also close to the angle that Russian moon shots have followed while in earth orbit, lending weight to the premise that Veterok and Ugolyok may be the immediate predecessors of the moon dogs the Russians have said they intend to send into lunar orbit ahead...
...inclination, to say nothing of the perigee and apogee, represented more than a launch mistake or a guidance error. In fact, no one was even sure why Veterok and Ugolyok had been chosen for the voyage. Though dogs are perfectly satisfactory subjects, U.S. scientists plan this fall to orbit a biosatellite loaded with wasps and fruit flies, which react far more quickly and sensitively to radiation. Perhaps the reason for the choice of dogs was simply that ever since Pavlov the Russians have used dogs for everything...