Sentence examples for lower earth from inspiring English sources
But when the Lunar Module proved unready to make its first test in a lower Earth orbit in December 1968, it was decided in August to fly Apollo 8 in December as a more ambitious lunar orbital flight without the Lunar Module.
The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, operated by internet entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company, successfully reached lower earth orbit nine minutes after an apparently flawless lift-off at 10.10am on Friday.
The X-Prize, initiated a few years ago by a group of Missouri investors to create a "New Spirit of St . Louis" will award $10 million to the company that manufactures a rocket that successfully transports three passengers into lower earth orbit (www.xprize.org).org
A space laser: A net is far from the craziest idea for clearing up lower Earth orbit.
Friday's launch, which lit up the skies over Florida's space coast, saw no problems with thrust or trajectory during the nine-minute powered flight into lower earth orbit.
Some, often government ones, operate in the lower earth orbit (LEO), but many others, usually commercial, are geostationary (GEO) for telecommunications, broadcasting and weather.
"GONE FISHING," Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan.
To Staten Island, to lower Manhattan, to Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
Downtown - Lower Manhattan Association , Inc
