Word: orbiter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet Union last week finally and formally broke silence on where Major Yuri Gagarin was sent into orbit (Baikonur), and where he returned to earth (Smelovka). TIME'S Mapmaker R. M. Chapin Jr. hit it on the button in the April 21 cover story on Gagarin...
...Chapin knew that Russia's Canaveral is in the area around Tyuratam, east of the Aral Sea, and that the angle of orbit of the shot to the Equator was 65° in the direction of Siberia. From this he could construct the orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that...
...beer in a Los Angeles tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
...succeed in the youth culture is to fall into an orbit where clipping is a diversion and vandalism a style of self-assertion. To enter the school is to face up to middle class values, and the barrier is virtually impenetrable. Youth returning from school take off their school clothes as if removing prison uniforms. More than half quit school as soon as the law allows. Little wonder that parents turn to the settlement house and ask, "Why don't you make the kids behave...
That job is programed for the more powerful-and, so far, much less reliable-Atlas missile. Of three Atlases tested while carrying unmanned Mercury capsules, two have blown up. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration still hopes to work out the Atlas and send an astronaut into orbit by year...