Her role in the mission will be to run the medical experiments in orbit.
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"There's a market for people in orbit if the price is low enough, " Greason said.
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Dr Foale, who was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, has logged over 374 days in orbit.
The Russian Space Agency says it has government funding to keep Mir in orbit until August.
This flight is intended to put in orbit six satellites for the Globalstar satellite phone company.
The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar.
That's the main engine cut-off when the shuttle's engines turn off and you're in orbit.
So most dust now in orbit around earth can be assumed to be man-made.
This is not the first time Williams has competed in orbit in a major athletic event.
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Astronauts generally get about six hours of shut-eye in orbit despite being allowed 8.5.
It will have to be sent up on multiple flights and joined together in orbit.
The Russians responded by sending off Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to be the first man in orbit.
And even some of the smallest debris can cause damage to satellites and other objects in orbit.
It plans to put in orbit at least another six satellites to boost service reach and quality.
Perhaps the most interesting thing is that the X-37B could stay in orbit for that much longer.
Thousands of photographs of Earth were taken, and records for human time spent in orbit were extended.
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The United States has reportedly detected such devices in orbit near its military communications and imaging satellites.
But it was not until the early 1990s that a sufficient complement of satellites was in orbit.
The current ICESat has been in orbit since 2003 and is nearing the end of its lifetime.
Including his latest mission, he has spent 553 cumulative days in orbit, the fifth highest total in history.
Unlike Globalstar, which has 52 satellites aloft, and Iridium, with 66, Inmarsat has only 9 satellites in orbit.
It has two old satellites in orbit that are likely to become targets for a future de-orbiting exercise.
Therefore, it's likely these stars still have material in orbit around them in the form of terrestrial-type bodies.
He was headed to the Russian Space Station, Mir, where he would spend spend five months in orbit.
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This rendezvous and docking capability is a prerequisite if larger structures are ever to be assembled in orbit.
Europe's Ariane 5 was initially conceived as the launcher that would put a mini-shuttle, called Hermes, in orbit.
Today, this 50m-high rocket puts just over half of all the large telecommunications satellites in orbit each year.
Certainly, statistical analyses would suggest there are very many stars out there with terrestrial bodies in orbit about them.
The all-male crew of Atlantis will spend the US Thanksgiving holiday in orbit.
If your secret space plane's in orbit and doing its secret thing well enough, why bother bringing it home?
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