We found 157 examples of how to use orbit in an English sentence.
Sentences 76 to 100 of 157.
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| 76. | The Mir space station was the largest man-made object to ever fall from orbit. | |
| 77. | While still an undergraduate, Adams performed an investigation to try to explain the reason for the irregularities in the motion of the planet Uranus. He theorized that the unexpected planetary orbit could be due to the presence of an as yet undiscovered planet. | |
| 78. | Neil Armstrong flew aboard Gemini 8. While in orbit, he and fellow astronaut David Scott carried out the first docking in space between two vehicles. | |
| 79. | John Glenn was selected as one of seven Project Mercury astronauts in 1959. In February of 1962, he became the first American to orbit Earth. | |
| 80. | On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth. | |
| 81. | Once in orbit, Yuri Gagarin had no control over his spacecraft. Vostok's reentry was controlled by a computer program sending radio commands to the space capsule. | |
| 82. | Korolev was responsible for the Sputnik program, which in 1957 launched the first artificial satellite into orbit. | |
| 83. | By 1845, Le Verrier had become interested in the motion of the planet Uranus. Uranus did not have the orbit scientists expected it to have based on their mathematical calculations. | |
| 84. | The protons and neutrons cluster together in the center of the atom in what is called the nucleus. The electrons orbit around the nucleus. | |
| 85. | It's the Sun's gravity that keeps the Earth in its orbit. | |
| 86. | It takes the Sun about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way. | |
| 87. | Galileo discovered that the Milky Way is made of many stars and that the Moon has hills. He discovered four moons in orbit around Jupiter, which are now known as the Galilean satellites. | |
| 88. | Change the orbit slightly of a single asteroid and we have big reptiles instead of people. | |
| 89. | Exoplanets are planets that orbit other stars than the Sun. | |
| 90. | Fifty-four years ago, Katherine Johnson did the behind-the-scenes math to put a man in orbit. Today, almost 60 women have blasted into space themselves. | |
| 91. | NASA's Juno spacecraft has entered into orbit around Jupiter. | |
| 92. | The perihelion is the point where an object in orbit around the Sun is nearest to the Sun. | |
| 93. | The aphelion is the point where an object in orbit around the Sun is furthest from the Sun. | |
| 94. | In Earth orbit, conditions can be as cold as minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit. In the sunlight, they can be as hot as 250 degrees. A spacesuit protects astronauts from those extreme temperatures. | |
| 95. | The microgravity environment of space makes the ISS a unique laboratory for the testing of spacecraft systems that will be required for future exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit. | |
| 96. | The ISS travels in orbit around the Earth at an average speed of 27,743.8 km/h, completing 15.7 orbits per day. | |
| 97. | LISA will place three spacecraft in orbit around the Sun, tagging along behind Earth. The three spacecraft will be 5 million kilometers apart flying in a triangle formation. When a gravitational wave passes by, these ripples in space gently push the spacecraft around by the tiniest amount imaginable. But the super-super-super sensitive laser beams that connect the three spacecraft will allow this tiny movement to be measured. | |
| 98. | Vanguard 1 was the first spacecraft to use solar cells. It's the oldest artificial satellite still in orbit around Earth. | |
| 99. | Pluto is closer to the sun than Neptune for about 8% of its orbit. | |
| 100. | A rocket needs about ten minutes to get into orbit. |