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...Russians this week took a giant new stride in the race toward the moon. From the Soviet rocketdrome in Central Asia, two manned space capsules rose into orbit around the earth and established visual and radio contact with each other. It was the first test of teamwork in space. Russian scientists said that the purpose of the mission was to check the physical effects of weightless flight on two cosmonauts orbiting under identical conditions and-more importantly-to gain experience in contact between vehicles in space...
...lunar gravity (16% of the earth's) and lack of atmosphere, take-off from the moon should be comparatively easy. NASA planners believe that finding the mother ship and joining it will be no more difficult than long-practiced rendezvous with the same equipment while on earth orbit. The bug will be abandoned, to circle endlessly around the moon, and the reunited three-man crew will head back for earth. They will have to graze the atmosphere, hitting a "corridor" only 40 miles deep, but they will have plenty of time to correct their course...
Garbage. Rocket parts that go into orbit along with a satellite...
Kick in the apogee. Raising a satellite's orbit by firing a rocket engine at its point of maximum altitude...
Sitting fat. Successfully in orbit...