Word: orbiter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...space, but from a personal concern that Glenn, the man alone in space, should succeed in his mission. The U.S. and the world had watched him undergo ten frustrating postponements, and could remember the anguish on his haggard face last January as he patiently waited his chance to orbit the globe?or die trying...
...Glenn's flight is only the beginning. The next man to orbit will probably be Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, 37, an Air Force major, a combat veteran of World War II, a fighter test pilot and an aeronautical engineer. Slayton is scheduled to take off on a three-orbit flight sometime this spring...
Trail Blazer. Following Slayton, U.S. space officials now plan to send astronauts on at least three more three-orbit flights, which will lead up to an 18-orbital shot sometime late this year or early in 1963. With more powerful rockets under development, the U.S. hopes to launch two-man capsules by 1964, keep them in orbit for as long as two weeks (U.S. scientists estimate that the Soviet Union may try a two-man orbital flight most any day). Most ambitious of foreseeable U.S. space flights is Project Apollo, which aims at putting three men on the moon?...
...everyone was asking about was U.S. Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 40, who in the past nine weeks had undergone, without twitch or grimace, an agonizing series of frustrations in his effort to become the first American to orbit the earth; this week he was scheduled to try again...
Relics of Feudalism. Hughes begins his history of the time of troubles as history itself begins-in apparent inconsequence. Hughes does not endow his characters with his own hindsight but sets them moving blindly into orbit. Augustine Penry-Herbert is the protagonist. In 1923, he is a young aristocrat, just out of Oxford, who spends his time shooting geese and snipe on the wild marshes of the coast of north Wales. His ancestral house, Newton Llantony, is servantless, its furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks...