Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should produce man-made satellites.' We are happy to announce that this great call by Chairman Mao has come true." With that characteristic bombast, the New China News Agency last week announced an important technological achievement: the successful lofting of a 381-lb. satellite into earth orbit...
...event makes China the fifth nation after the Soviet Union the U. S., France, and Japan-to launch a rocket capable of placing a satellite in orbit...
Hsinhua stated that the satellite was relaying 40 seconds of music, ten seconds of data, and ten seconds of silence during each minute in orbit...
...five hours and 25 minutes after the service-module explosion, the lunar module's descent engine was fired. Had it not burned, Apollo 13 would have swung around the moon but missed the earth on the return trip by 2,951 miles and gone into a wide-ranging earth orbit, stranding the astronauts. But the lunar module engine performed reliably. With only a 30.7-second burn, it put Apollo 13 on a course that would carry it toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Houston?and the world?breathed easier, but Mission Control knew that the burn was only...
...failed to achieve his goal of walking on the moon and may well request to fly still another mission. Beyond that, Lovell says that he plans to stay on with NASA. Some friends, however, believe that his good looks and winning ways might eventually launch him into a new orbit-that of a politician in his home state, Wisconsin...