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

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

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

He's out of my orbit.    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