Word: orbiter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...settled on a jump into the waters of the Hudson River, opposite Yonkers, where he would be outside the scope of big-city police, but still inside the orbit of big-city photographers. His brushes with officialdom had delayed matters ten days past his actual anniversary, but one day last week he climbed into a cab and rode to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport. When he got out, the driver demanded his $8 fare. Macfadden, who had no cash in his jeans, told him to collect later. His airplane pilot also demanded cash, on the ground that after...
...States Army officers on the Space Platform . . . has definitely been established . . . Come in, Space! . . . Tell the listeners here on earth, tell us, in your position far out there in free space . . . what's it like to be actually a, part of the solar system, with your own private orbit? . . . Do you feel the pull of gravity?" "No, sir, I don't . . . Now that you mention it, I don't feel the pull of dames, either . . . You suppose gravity has anything to do with sex? . . . I know I don't weigh anything, and when...
...communists are bent on pursuing their objective of dominating the entire Asian continent as a part of their long-range scheme of world conquest; Their present activities in Asia would lend force to the popular belief that Soviet Russia is trying to get all of Asia first into its orbit in order to avoid having to fight on two fronts...
...whirling swarm with its double heart of iron approached the impact point from the north-northwest at 20 to 31 miles a second, and at a vertical angle of about 30°. The meteorite "moon" was moving on its orbit about 800 ft. away from the line of flight of the meteorite earth, and considerably behind it. Each collected on its forward side a layer of highly compressed air equivalent in mass to many feet of rock. The air shell of the big meteorite hit the earth first, acting like high explosive and blasting a preliminary crater...
Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, said yesterday that the comet made its nearest approach to the sun two weeks ago and that it will soon be once more observable from the earth. The comet's orbit is so far from the earth, added Whipple, that a telescope or field glasses will be needed to observe...