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Riding in the Orion spacecraft, the crew’s there-and-back-again voyage will trace out a figure-eight-like path around Earth and the moon, arcing about the lunar far side at the journey’s midpoint before being pulled back earthward by our planet’s gravity.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2026
At a goodly height, the device’s fuel seemed to fail, and the rocket began a slow tumble earthward.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Moving the weight shifted the center of mass of the satellite, enabling operators on the ground to keep the satellite antennae facing earthward.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2025
And right now, there’s very little regulation governing how most of these satellites are launched, or what happens to the internal components when the satellites die, fall earthward, and burn up in the atmosphere.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
In 2021 five children died in Australia when gusts swept up an inflatable castle more than 30 feet into the air, sending nine fifth- and sixth-graders tumbling earthward.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
The baby moon, which sent earthward a steady song of triumph that was picked up on minitrack and other receivers, had to achieve a fantastic speed of 18,000 miles an hour 300 miles above the earth to get into orbit.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
Beyond the bridge, the expressway lurches earthward again and veers west to follow the coastline.
—Justin Beal, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
As the codewords journeyed earthward, the engineers knew some 1s would be distorted into 0s and some 0s into 1s.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2013
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2026
At a goodly height, the device’s fuel seemed to fail, and the rocket began a slow tumble earthward.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Moving the weight shifted the center of mass of the satellite, enabling operators on the ground to keep the satellite antennae facing earthward.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2025
And right now, there’s very little regulation governing how most of these satellites are launched, or what happens to the internal components when the satellites die, fall earthward, and burn up in the atmosphere.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
In 2021 five children died in Australia when gusts swept up an inflatable castle more than 30 feet into the air, sending nine fifth- and sixth-graders tumbling earthward.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
The baby moon, which sent earthward a steady song of triumph that was picked up on minitrack and other receivers, had to achieve a fantastic speed of 18,000 miles an hour 300 miles above the earth to get into orbit.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
Beyond the bridge, the expressway lurches earthward again and veers west to follow the coastline.
—Justin Beal, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
As the codewords journeyed earthward, the engineers knew some 1s would be distorted into 0s and some 0s into 1s.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2013
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“Earthward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earthward. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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