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Last week the Russians disclosed that the first two craft had reached their destination. One of the ships, Mars 5, went into orbit around Mars, they reported, but the other, Mars 4, soared past it into deep space. Reason: Its braking rocket failed to fire...
...excite a blase public. When the last of three Skylab crews finally splashed down off Lower Cali fornia last week, their successful home coming was not even given live cover age by the TV networks, though the astronauts had set a remarkable endurance record of 84 days in orbit...
When Skylab's third and last team of astronauts lands in the Pacific off lower California this week, after a record 84 days in earth orbit, a good deal more than an extraordinarily successful mission will be coming to an end. Except for next year's scheduled space rendezvous between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts, there are no plans to send anyone from the U.S. into orbit before the close of the decade. Friday's splashdown concludes not only the ambitious $2.6 billion Skylab program but an entire era of space exploration...
...faltered -threatening the photographic studies of sun and earth, which require an extremely stable vantage point. Finally, the crew grew so edgy that Skylab Commander Carr asked for a full-fledged appraisal of the crew's performance-in effect, the space program's first encounter session between orbit and ground...
Hungry Guppy. The bold tactic worked. Following the blunt dialogue between astronauts and Mission Control, relations improved enormously. So did the spacemen's performance. Helped by a steady program of exercising (bicycle and treadmill), the astronauts made a physical as well as emotional adjustment to their life in orbit. They also got more tune to relax; for amusement, Carr would open a jar of peanuts and "swim" after them as they drifted off, swallowing them up like a hungry guppy. "From what we've seen on Skylab," Astronaut-Physician Story F. Musgrave said last week...