Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landing is not made, the crew members will carry out experiments in the orbit around the moon...
Near Miss. Looking for a better solution, Singer recalled an old suggestion by Nobel Laureate Harold Urey, who argued that in the early days of the solar system the inner planets were accompanied in orbit around the sun by many moonlike bodies. Because only one of these ancient "moons" remains (the earth's), it seems quite likely that most of the others eventually collided with the planets. Singer dismisses the possibility that a direct hit by a moon could have reversed Venus' spin; the moon would have been much too small. But his calculations indicate that a near...
...Then, as Venusian gravity pulled it back, it would have again sped by the planet-but this time not so far out into space. Eventually, as the tidal forces between the two bodies increased during this strange celestial courtship, the moon would have been drawn into an increasingly smaller orbit around the planet. At the same time, Venus' spin would have been greatly retarded and eventually reversed; the planet's surface would also have become searingly hot from the friction of the tidal movements, and volcanoes would have erupted-giving off the thick clouds of gases that still...
...prestige and publicity, Aquarius had done some fine, moody descriptions of Cape Kennedy and Houston. He was unusually good at narrating the nuts and bolts of the flight. But there was absolutely no suspense. One knew beforehand that Apollo 11 would succeed and that Aquarius would become stranded in orbit with his preoccupations about corporate capitalism, WASPhood, the metaphysics of cancer, the death grip of practically anything made of plastic, and his need to find the peace and security of family life and decent work...
...wings-mobility, ascension, elevation and refinement of consciousness, power to move freely between Heaven and Earth. All the same, there were difficulties of symbolization, which is why the distinctions that early theologians drew between various levels of angels did not endure in art. The thrones, in their ceaseless orbit around God, were sometimes depicted as winged wheels, whose hubs were studded with eyes-to indicate their power to see into the heart of divine mysteries...