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Definition of Circumlunar
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumlunar
Literary usage of Circumlunar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"1960 January: NASA presented its ten-year plan to Congress, calling for a program
leading to manned circumlunar flight and a permanent earth-orbiting space ..."
2. Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Physical by Ignatius Singer, Lewis Henry Berens (1897)
"... and during each circumlunar revolution to make twenty-eight additional (diurnal)
revolutions round its axis, then, from the above explanation, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... although a very small amount of target rock, ejected at low angle and high
velocity, possibly could have attained circumlunar ranges. ..."
4. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"... which could be a circumlunar voyage or a manned landing.8 During a spring
meeting of various NASA managers at Langley Research Center, Hampton, ..."
5. A Review of ICITAP's Screening Procedures for Contractors Sent to Iraq as edited by Barry Leonard (2005)
"The astronauts USAF Cols Frank Borman and William A. Anders and USN Capt James A.
Lovell Jr. achieve man's first circumlunar space travel. ..."
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