Chinese fighter pilot turned spacefarer Yang Liwei, a 38-year old from the northeastern part of the country, orbited the Earth several times. |
On the floor and roof several other, albeit smaller, structures orbited around the larger one. |
While my copilot coordinated our recovery, I lazily orbited over the rocks. |
He said thinking of space in those terms amounts to revolution comparable to Copernicus's proof of a solar system that orbited the sun. |
We were stationed 21,000 feet and orbited while looking for surface tracks around the battlegroup. |
Past discoveries of planets in other solar systems had wildly eccentric orbits or orbited very close to the star. |