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translunar

[tran′slü·nər]
(astronomy)
Beyond the orbit of the moon.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Translunar Paradise will be performed at the Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio on January 31
Emotional show acts as a communal space to grieve; Warwick Arts Centre is to stage the hit Edinburgh show Translunar Paradise, which began life as part of Birmingham's BE Festival - a celebration of international theatre-making. Seven years on, writer/director George Mann reveals the origins of the production, which provokes very emotional responses
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Because its launch vehicle has excess payload capacity, the mission will also carry an experiment called LCROSS for observing a planned lunar crash of the vehicle's translunar injection stage.
Planetary Exploration Missions
The flight regime for the DOD's Earth-orbiting payloads and that for a translunar injection make it impossible for both agencies to use identical second stages because the thrust level required for NASA's missions far exceeds that required by the DOD.
The evolved expendable launch vehicle: tough decisions to assure access to space
Leaving Earth orbit on a three-day translunar traverse requires a velocity increase of 3,100 meters per second; capturing into a preferred lunar orbit requires a velocity decrease of 1,100 m/s; and descent to the lunar surface requires a further decrease of 1,900 m/s.
One step back, one giant leap forward: for NASA engineers planning to send humans back to the moon. The best mission design was staring them right in the face
First, a new heavylift booster will launch an empty lunar module and a heavy translunar upperstage engine into Earth orbit.
Apollo again?
"Out of Earth's Cradle: The Translunar Travel Narrative in the Western Tradition." (Mihai Spariosu) University of Georgia.
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That is, the Daemon, which had been speaking in its "blunt, hollow voice" (blaesae et obtusae vocis 323) steers away from the details of translunar transit (which seem to have bored it) and assumes the pronominal "we" as it goes on to sound, perhaps, like Mercator, Keple r's favorite contemporary geographer.
Kepler's allegory of containment, the making of modern astronomy, and the semiotics of mathematical thought
Because her Beckett is modeled after characters from Beckett's own works -- a Beckett of breakdown, chill disengagement, lethargy, and pain -- she has come close to violating Riffaterre's rhythm of singularizing and familiarizing: there is little of Beckett as a plain man, and much of Beckett as something superhuman or subhuman, a dazzled translunar eyeball, or Gregor Samsa as beetle.
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
co.uk Translunar Paradise Theatre Ad Infinitum present a story of life, death and enduring love, today.
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Young, ambitious and highly successful Theatre Ad Infinitum are bringing multi-award winning Translunar Paradise to the West North Street venue on Tuesday, October 22.
Love, death and laughter
0151 709 4776; Translunar Paradise (Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Or mskirk), 7.30pm; Translunar Paradise...
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