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The first human to go into space, Yury Gagarin, was launched, again by the Soviet Union, for a one-orbit journey around Earth on April 12 , 1961

Atlantis then climbed through cloud on its nine-minute journey into orbit, leaving a thick plume of smoke in the air and shaking the ground with the rumble from its three powerful engines.

The space lab made the journey into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.

On Sunday night the China National Space Administration launched a communications satellite on a Long March rocket on a 280,000 mile journey to orbit the moon.

Virgin Galactic, founded by British billionaire Branson, has worked nearly a decade to be the world's first commercial space liner, eventually making several trips a day carrying scores of paying customers into orbit for a brief journey.

Forty-one minutes after launching, the rocket released Smart 1 into space to begin a 15-month journey to reach lunar orbit.

Whole-spacecraft vibration isolation is a direct and effective technique toward improving the dynamic environment that a spacecraft experiences during its journey to the orbit.

It's possible the object was traveling in an orbit that required it to journey from the innermost part of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Apollo 10 journeyed to lunar orbit and tested the LM to within 15.2 km (50,000 feet) of the Moon's surface.

Their journey to the orbiting platform should take just under six hours.

China has launched its latest Shenzhou manned space mission, carrying three astronauts on their journey to the orbiting Tiangong space lab.