Word: orbitals
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...earth-encircling rings high above the atmosphere. And Van Allen has played a key role as a principal investigator in the first missions to Venus and Mars by Mariner spacecraft and to Jupiter by the Pioneers, and has served as a participating scientist for Galileo, which is still in orbit around Jupiter...
...never experienced the show as a child, there is something bewildering about the hold of a man who, like Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin, seemed to possess some kind of “secret charm” that drew children into his orbit...
...coat have been punctured? There are still only theories, but here is what we do know: new temperature records reveal that the heat in the left wheel well began to increase when the shuttle was still over the Pacific, heading for California. That suggests the ship sustained damage in orbit, but began to feel the effects only when the temperature rose during re-entry. "In a large number of cases," says retired Admiral Harold Gehman, head of the investigation board, "what you find in the end has no bearing on what you thought you had in the beginning." That would...
...contrasts are there. Schools in the Texas-Miami orbit have athletes who never see class after frantic pushes to break 800 on the SAT, belong to utterly corrupt conferences (SEC football, anyone?) and basketball teams that don’t graduate half their players. The Ivy League does...
With the foam and the bolts moving down the list of likely causes, a meteor hit moved up. Few people suggest that a cataclysmic collision simply blew the ship out of the sky--not so low in the atmosphere, anyway. But up in orbit, a bad ding by a rogue rock could have done enough damage to cause serious drag as the ship descended through the atmosphere, and Columbia indeed heeled sharply to the left before it disintegrated. Pits and gouges in the protective tiles are common during flight; ships routinely pick up close to 100 of them...