Why not praise the resilience of Pinus flexilis, a tree that occurs from Canada to Mexico, in high and low altitudes, attaining ages up to 2,000 years.
The astronauts will take the Discovery to an orbit 380 miles above Earth, the highest altitude ever attained by a shuttle crew and close to the limit, given the heavy payload.
Higher altitudes can attained during short-duration rocket flights for ultraviolet observations.
Greater altitudes are attained on the Bauchi and Jos plateaus in the center and in the Adamawa Massif (which continues into Cameroon) in the east, where Nigeria's highest point (c.6,700 ft/2,040 m) is located.
PARIS — With Mme. de Flagnis as passenger, M. Perreyon, chief pilot of the Blériot firm, went up from the Buc aerodrome on a Blériot monoplane at eleven o'clock yesterday [June 3] and attained an altitude of 5,100 mètres, which easily beats the world's record for altitude with a passenger.
M. Legagneux attained an altitude of 3,200 m?es.
The Ca.60 attained an altitude of sixty feet above Lake Maggiore and subsided into the water, never to rise again.
Besides, details and subtle traits of spatial patterns of precipitation extremes can be attained when altitude was taken into consideration.
The two docked with an Agena target vehicle and, using the Agena's engine, attained an altitude of 475 miles (764 km).
OR.343 was more specific and built upon work from the various submissions to GOR.339 specifically stating that the low-level operations would be at 200 feet or less, and that Mach 2 should be attained at altitude.
This demonstrates that Mt. Kenya attained impressive altitudes during its main activity in the Pliocene, being one of the highest mountains in that time and was most probably covered by an ice cap.
