Sentence examples for module and orbited from inspiring English sources

On each trip, one of the three astronauts remained in the command module and orbited the Moon until the others returned.

During this mission, the second manned landing on the Moon, Gordon was pilot of the Command Module and remained in lunar orbit during the lunar exploration.

The vault, zygomatic-pterygoid and orbit modules, characterized by low trait integration, displayed significantly high disparity within Carnivora.

Small space stations are launched fully assembled, but larger stations are sent up in modules and assembled in orbit.

The mission was originally planned as Apollo 9, to be performed in early 1969 as the second test of the complete Apollo spacecraft, including the Lunar Module and the Command/Service Module in an elliptical medium Earth orbit.

Atlantis also carried out on-orbit joint US-Russian life sciences investigations aboard a Spacelab module and performed a logistical resupply of the station.

The astronauts onboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft will also dock with the Tiangong 1 - an experimental module currently orbiting Earth - and carry out scientific experiments on board.

The astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft will dock with the Tiangong 1 - an experimental module currently orbiting Earth - and carry out scientific experiments on board.

And already during the Apollo 11 mission he had been able to relay television shots of the earth itself made from space, and of portions of the moon as the command module orbited it.

When its first module achieved orbit in 1986, Mir was the pride of the Soviet Union.

The Russian Proton-K rocket that is carrying the long-delayed International Space Station's service module into orbit lifted off at 8 56 a.m. today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.