Word: orbited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book on the Mercury Project, Author Tom Wolfe contended that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, had plenty of the "right stuff." Though Glenn eventually traded his g-suit for a wardrobe more befitting a Democratic Senator from Ohio, he accepted an invitation from the U.S. Marines for a test spin in an AV-8A Harrier at Quantico, Va. A former test pilot, Glenn took the jet up to speed, made a couple of race-track turns and a few takeoffs and landings. Clearly, enough of the right stuff is left...
...policy review is a reaffirmation of restraint, since the U.S. wants to avoid permanently alienating Banisadr and his allies. Part of the Administration's thinking is based on the firmly held tenet that it is vital to long-term U.S. interests that Iran not fall into the Soviet orbit. Many Iranian officials agree; Defense Minister Mustafa Ali Chamran said that in the event of a Soviet attack Iran would expect the U.S. to come to its aid. The leaders of the revolution in Tehran, moreover, now seem to be taking seriously the Soviet military presence on Iran...
...Banisadr closer to Moscow.* As he has made abundantly clear, Iran's new President is no friend of America's, but he remains the best hope for a stable, non-aligned government in a country that the U.S. can ill afford to let fall into the Soviet orbit...
...last count, the U.S. Air Force's North American Air Defense Command, the watchdog of all objects in orbit, listed 4,552 pieces of hardware-ranging in size from a Soviet space station to such bits of space junk as an astronaut's glove, stray cameras, and even nuts and bolts. In the coming years NORAD's job will become still harder. By the mid-1980s, the number of orbital objects may double, making it more difficult to tell what is up, and whether it belongs to friend...
...designation for a kind of gravitational "hollow" that trails the moon in its orbit at a point equidistant from the moon and the earth. Lofted to this point, a spacecraft would remain locked in a fairly stable orbit around...