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Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

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... Abstract Compute the geometric state (position and velocity) of a target body relative to an observing body. ... Particulars spkgeo_c computes the geometric state, T(t), of the target body and the geometric state, O(t), of the observing body relative to the first common center of motion. Subtracting O(t) from T(t) gives the geometric state of the target body relative to the observer. ... Index_Entries geometric state of one body relative to another . Link to routine source . ...

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... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

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... WSTLDREC - LOAD STRUCT FROM ASCII INPUT . ... The default is:/share/megs2_u1/wst/ . ... Previous Routine] [Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: wstrawinpday - read in 1 days worth of data from ascii file SYNTAX: n=wstrawinpday(yymmdd,bar,inpdir=inpdir) ARGS: yymmdd: int yymmdd of date for file (ast) inpdir : string input dir to read file. def: '/share/orion/' RETURNS: n: int number records input bar[n]: struct input data DESCRIPTION: Input a days worth of wst data from the daily raw: wst_yymmdd...