Sentence examples for flight in orbit from inspiring English sources

The first U.S. manned flight in orbit was that of the Friendship 7, commanded by John H. Glenn.

But don't count on a privately financed flight in orbit: A space suit alone runs $10 million.

An airtight module is one of the most important components of a manned spacecraft because it not only provides the habitable and working spaces but also ensures the safety of the astronauts during flight in orbit and atmospheric reentry.

While the Russians forge ahead, Americans begin catching up with the Mercury and Gemini flights in orbit.

The flight model in orbit was successfully commissioned in 2013 and has been sampling the space radiation field in the satellite environment along its orbit at a rate of several frames per minute of varying exposure time.

We describe the basic characteristics of the instrument and briefly discuss the new developments made to tailor the instrument to flight in Mercury orbit.

The actual flight into orbit is much more fascinating, in part because you are weightless.

Energia was launched only twice, once in 1987 with a military payload and once the next year carrying Buran on a successful unmanned test flight into orbit and back.

In this paper, two practical thrusters calibration approaches are proposed, discussed and evaluated through in-orbit flight tests.

In fact, Mr. Romanov added, Major Titov came close to scrapping the flight in the early orbits because of the nausea.

This paper introduces the extended mission of the Chinese circumlunar return and reentry test (i.e., the CHANG'E-5T1 mission), the first Chinese flight in the Earth Moon libration orbit and the first spacecraft to reach the Earth Moon libration orbit via a lunar swing-by.