The space shuttle stayed in orbit around the earth for a week before landing again.    From LearnThat.org. 

He's out of my orbit.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He plotted the orbit of the moon.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

In the political orbit of a world power.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The likelihood of a crew being stranded in orbit is thus reduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch] Reference

This idea, of a gas station in orbit, is the most cost effective and quickest means of reaching the moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch] Reference

Putting an object in orbit is an accomplishment only a few national governments have been able to accomplish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Launch Success for SpaceX and Falcon 1 (video) - NASA Watch] Reference

Yet even with its on-board controls, Canadarm's mass in orbit is less than two per cent of what it can manipulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Now the Good News] Reference

I do strongly think that Martian colonies will exist, enabled by spaceships built in orbit from the resources gleaned from the Moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest NASA Administrator Speculation - NASA Watch] Reference

I think cost to orbit is too high for either of these programs to pan out but I wish them well.    From Wordnik.com.  [» ‘The Man Who Sold the Sky’ heinleinblog] Reference

After that the centre of his orbit is the front of the stove, the diameter the length of his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housekeeping In The Klondike] Reference

The part of the blogosphere in my orbit is a bubbling with ingenuity and energy, as the following examples from my regular reads may show.    From Wordnik.com.  [The bubbling blogosphere] Reference

Hassenpfeffer Archive: Space hotel prototype in orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space hotel prototype in orbit] Reference

The shape of the orbit is known as its “eccentricity.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The New ‘Death Panels’: Gingrich Says GOP Should Campaign Against Nonexistent IRS ‘Health Gestapo’] Reference

The second American satellite which is still in orbit is the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sputniks] Reference

Permanent habitats have been placed in orbit and on the Moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2004] Reference

However you need to know when the orbit is favorable for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [suit sat 1] Reference

A little physics lessons: objects in orbit tend to stay in orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looks Like MOD Can Overrule JSC (and NASA HQ) PAO - NASA Watch] Reference

Its orbit is farther from its host star than Earth is from the Sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2006] Reference

Men have already been placed in orbit and safely returned to the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Around Us] Reference

In August, Satmex 6 will be placed in orbit by French company Arianespace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd Mexico Economic Report May 2003] Reference

Bigelow Aerospace has not one, but two test modules in orbit and doing great.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Secrets of the New Space Hotel] Reference

But even today, no one knows if the Earth's orbit is stable over the long run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe: ID rescues Common Descent] Reference

At the highest level, in orbit hundreds of miles up, were scores of satellites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kabul-ki Dance] Reference

I simply like satellites - this is GIOVE-B in orbit, the second Galileo satellite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galileo Satellites] Reference

Now going from six stories to satellites in low Earth orbit is probably a stretch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

As I write this, computer game pioneer Richard Garriott is in orbit as a space tourist.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?] Reference

He spoke briefly to Najibullah by radio while in orbit, and he photographed Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Space Oddity] Reference

The idea of putting men in orbit by means of skyrockets seems so ridiculous compared to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [H.G. Wells' Things to Come] Reference

Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Once Sundancer is in orbit, the plan is to launch a propulsion module that would dock at Sundancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progress on World’s First Space Hotel | Impact Lab] Reference

And with all that hardware in orbit, you'll be able to call for on-demand drops of armor and equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction To Look Forward To In 2009 - Video Games (Non-MMO)] Reference

In space there is no gravity, unless you're in orbit of a planet, star, or dangerously close to a black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [9 Other Questions about the Star Trek Universe Popular Science Should Answer] Reference

Almost everybody seemed to detect something — a signal that the spacecraft was in orbit and ready to deploy its visionary cargo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Universe] Reference

As long as an object is above the last traces of Earth's atmosphere, it will stay in orbit for thousands or even millions of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danger of Space Junk] Reference