The vehicle was designed to boost to 28 km altitude and glide a distance of 280 km, but test flights in 1934 and 1936 only reached an altitude of 500 meters.

As a result, on the day of the solstice the Sun appears to have reached its highest or lowest annual altitude in the sky above the horizon at local solar noon.

The key concept of the space elevator appeared in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris to consider a tower that reached all the way into space, built from the ground up to the altitude of geostationary orbit ( 35, 790 kilometers ( 22, 238 mi ) above sea level ).

By 08: 33, the aircraft reached cruising altitude of 31, 000 feet, which is the point when cabin service would begin.

While Sputnik 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth, other man-made objects had previously reached an altitude of 100 km, which is the height required by the international organization Fédération Aéronautique Internationale to count as a spaceflight.

In order to cover large distances, ballistic missiles are usually launched into a high sub-orbital spaceflight ; for intercontinental missiles the highest altitude ( apogee ) reached during free-flight is about 1200 km.

At an altitude of 750 m ( 2, 460 ft ) the main thrusters began firing, slowing the fall until a height of 22 m ( 72 ft ) was reached.

* List of altitude records reached by different aircraft types

It flew for 19. 46 seconds and reached an altitude of 20 cm.

On September 25, 1928 they started climbing from the saddle along the NE Ridge and at 15. 30 they reached the first top of Lenin Peak at an altitude of 7127 m ( 23 382, 55 ft .).

On September 8, 1934, at 16: 20 Kasian Chernuha, Vitaly Abalakov and Ivan Lukin, three members of a Soviet expedition, reached the summit at an altitude of.

At the end of the second day they reached the crest of the NE ridge at an altitude of about 6500 m. During the following day and a half they climbed along the NE Ridge and, utterly exhausted, reached the summit.

Once it reached cruising altitude and was far away from populated areas the nuclear reactor would be made critical.

Humboldt and his party reached an altitude of, a world record at the time.

Its first bounce reached the altitude of about 35 feet ( 10 meters ).

The spacecraft reached an altitude of 102, 360 km ( 109, 740 km from the center of the Earth ) before falling back to Earth.

A main descent engine was used to slow the craft until it reached a cutoff point which was determined by the on-board computer based on altitude and velocity.

At an altitude of 750 meters the main thrusters began firing, slowing the fall until a height of 22 meters was reached.

On 27 May 1931, Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer took off from Augsburg, Germany, and reached a record altitude of.

Toward this, he was allowed to use a Wac Corporal rocket as a second stage for a V-2 ; the combination, called Bumper, reached a record-breaking altitude.

The absence of a ' gas release valve ' meant that the duke had to slash the ' ballonnet ' to prevent rupture when they reached an altitude of circa.

One radiosonde from Clark Air Base, Philippines reached an altitude of.

It was hotter once they reached the flat, and drier, but the grass was better.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.

Ramey reached out with the tire iron and dislodged a chunk of mud that was caked on the spare tire rack.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

He recognized her because she was the one who, in a winter twilight, on the edge of camp, had once stopped him and reached down her hand to touch his fly.

The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.