Their original Earth orbit flight plan would be changed to a lunar orbit.
The third stage left the satellite stranded in an unusable orbit.
A pet project of Space-Flight Prophet Wernher von Braun and his disciples is the creation of an artificial satellite revolving in an orbit 1,000 miles above the earth.
New NASA satellite to begin sun-watching mission From its perch in low-Earth orbit, NASA's newest satellite will soon get a close-up look at a little-explored region of the sun that's thought to drive space weather that can affect Earth.
July 1, 2013 - Laramie Boomerang
Editorial: Greetings, Venusians. Take me to your ATM At any given moment, there are only a handful of humans in space — in the International Space Station and, occasionally, some Chinese astronauts shot into orbit for a short ride.
July 1, 2013 - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Piers Sellers in National Post We're delighted to take this piece of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree to orbit. While it's up there, it will be experiencing no gravity, so if it had an apple on it, the apple wouldn't fall,Sellers said. "I'm pretty sure that Sir Isaac would...