orbital

• “They are going to focus on what they call the orbital space plane, which a vehicle just to carry humans into orbit, so that we could get people up to the space station.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2003

• “They did not obtain orbital velocity (would need a whole order of magnitude increase in thrust to get there).”

  X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch

• “For Z Zcr, if the innermost orbital is not filled, the electric field of the nucleus will pull an electron out of the vacuum, resulting in the spontaneous emission of a positron.”

  MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction

• “Along the way he employs with a crew of freelancers, gets involved in a kind of relationship, excapes from a mad prophet that rules over a tropical island, witnesess a grand destruction of an orbital, is on a reckless run from Culture agents and many more exciting things ...”

  Genre Classics: Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (Book Review)

• “Additional experience in orbital surgery is also available at Columbia University.”

  Oculoplastic Fellowship

• “China's burgeoning manned space program aims for a long-term orbital foothold even as the U.S. has drawn down its manned space operations, and as Western officials and analysts worry about a Chinese military build-up in space.”

  The Wall Street Journal: China Makes Giant Leap With Space Docking

• “If NASA would have developed a 'people shuttle' transport like the Delta Clipper or other reusable manned space craft concepts then they could then focus on funding the heavy lift vehicles needed to build the infrastructure needed for colonies on the Moon, Mars, and in orbital space.”

  Less Pizza, More NASA - NASA Watch

• ““My clients sent me here to request that you surrender your targeting equipment and cease calling in orbital strikes.””

  365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “It is a simple thing, a brief burn by the twin orbital maneuvering rockets against the direction of flight, which slows the shuttle by perhaps 200 mph.”

  Columbia's Last Flight

• “Because such ships are too large to be launched in one piece, construction on orbit is required, as is long-term orbital storage of super-cold or “cryogenic” propellant.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Case for Mars

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