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  • Design and build an earth-orbit to moon-surface craft for transporting people back and forth.

    Why Some Say the Moon? - NASA Watch 2009

  • Just a few months earlier, von Braun had shocked his own people at NASA Marshall by shifting his support from earth-orbit rendezvous (EOR) to the more controversial lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) as the best way to land on the Moon.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • Just a few months earlier, von Braun had shocked his own people at NASA Marshall by shifting his support from earth-orbit rendezvous (EOR) to the more controversial lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) as the best way to land on the Moon.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • Just a few months earlier, von Braun had shocked his own people at NASA Marshall by shifting his support from earth-orbit rendezvous (EOR) to the more controversial lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) as the best way to land on the Moon.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • Just a few months earlier, von Braun had shocked his own people at NASA Marshall by shifting his support from earth-orbit rendezvous (EOR) to the more controversial lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) as the best way to land on the Moon.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • In designing the system that would support Apollo earth-orbit and lunar missions, it was obvious that the quality of the network would have to be advanced far beyond the capabilities of previous space communications systems.

    Apollo Communications 1970

  • Another group of researchers from Great Britain hope to send a smartphone powered satellite into lower earth-orbit before the year's end.

    Wired Top Stories Christina Bonnington 2011

  • At a minimum, the United States needs to develop better "space awareness" with hardened and redundant capabilities to track both what is being sent into space and activities in earth-orbit.

    Spero News 2009

  • Here’s the pitch: put a million solar cells in earth-orbit, take advantage of the constant solar radiation, and beam massive amounts of clean energy back to earth.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Orbital solar power? Sure! Why not? 2007

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