Sentence examples for historic orbit from inspiring English sources

It was part of a small celebration to honor Glenn, a United States senator from Ohio for 25 years, for his historic orbit in 1962.

D. Brainerd Holmes, who led NASA's manned spaceflight program for two crucial years, 1961 to 1963 — a period that included John Glenn's historic orbit of Earth and helped set the stage for the first moon landing — died on Friday in Memphis.

A Mars-sized space object likely knocked Earth on its side 4.4 billion years ago, and knowledge of this is disrupting 50 years of work calculating the moon's historic orbit.

The program name Salyut (Russian: "Salute") was chosen to honour cosmonaut Yury Gagarin's historic first orbit of Earth in 1961.

The name of the station program, Salyut (Russian: "salute"), was chosen to honour cosmonaut Yury Gagarin's historic first orbit of Earth a decade earlier.

Assistant Professor Jacob Bean has been awarded a historic 150 orbits of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) time for observations of exoplanet atmospheres.

Despite the dark skies over Florida's Space Coast, large crowds came out to try to glimpse Atlantis as it made its historic return from orbit.

For more memorable NASA images, see these slideshows commemorating John Glenn's historic first Earth orbit and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

A private spaceship mission to the International Space Station is on track for a planned April 30 launch, which will mark a historic first for the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials announced April 16.

The Museum of Science and Industry is now home to the space capsule of Captain Lovell's historic Apollo 8 mission; first to orbit the moon and so beautifully honored with the crew's Christmas Eve Broadcast to earth on December 24th , 1968

Set in the isolated western steppes of Kazakhstan, the base was the scene of the historic launches of the first satellite to orbit Earth and pioneer cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.