Other Apollo 15 achievements include: largest payloads ever placed into earth and lunar orbits ; first scientific instrument module bay flown and operated on an Apollo spacecraft ; longest distance traversed on lunar surface ; first use of a lunar surface navigation device ( mounted on Rover-1 ); first subsatellite launched in lunar orbit ; and first extravehicular ( EVA ) from a command module during transearth coast.

This marks the first three-person EVA in human history and was also the longest EVA ( 8 hours, 29 minutes ) ever conducted to that time.

As of January, 2004, it is now the second longest EVA, and is still the only instance of a three-person EVA.

He is known for having performed ten EVAs so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record and having the longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days ; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007.

It would also stand until STS-102 in 2001 as the longest EVA ever undertaken.

* First and second longest EVA to date: 8 hours and 29 minutes and 7 hours and 45 minutes.

Apollo 15 achievements include: Largest payloads placed in earth and lunar orbits ; first scientific instrument module bay flown and operated on an Apollo spacecraft ; longest lunar surface stay time ( the lunar module, Falcon, remained on ground for 66 hours and 54 minutes ); longest lunar surface EVA ( Scott and Irwin logged 18 hours and 35 minutes each during three excursions onto the lunar surface ); longest distance traversed on lunar surface ; first use of lunar roving vehicle ; first use of a lunar surface navigation device ( mounted on Rover-1 ); first subsatellite launched in lunar orbit ; and first EVA from a command module during transearth coast.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

As entries began to be revised for the OED3 in sequence starting from M, the longest entry became make in 2000, then put in 2007.

As of 2007 it is the second-longest rail tunnel in the world, but with the undersea section of being the longest undersea tunnel in the world.

* 2007: The Congo River and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the scenario for the 2007 book Blood River by journalist Tim Butcher, based on his intrepid travels up and down Africa's second longest river.

However, as of October, 2007, it no longer has the longest album title, as Soulwax released Most of the Remixes, a remix album whose title surpasses When the Pawn ’ s length by 100 characters.

Elton John holds the all-time record for greatest number of appearances at the Garden with 62 shows ( the 60th occurring on his 60th birthday, March 25, 2007 ), and Billy Joel set a record in 2006 during his 12 performance run, the longest run of a single artist at the venue.

The Broncos extended their string of consecutive victories to 14 in 2007 with a 56 – 7 win over Weber State, but the streak ( then the longest in the nation ) ended with a 24-10 upset loss in Seattle to the Washington Huskies at Husky Stadium on September 8, 2007.

The Guinness World Record of 40 hours for the longest talk show was broken on the 27 / 28 October 2007 by Paweł Kotuliński in Poland.

Prior to 2007, the qualifying rides had to be completed from shortest to longest.

In May 2007, Network DVD in the UK released a digitally restored copy of the 96m 24s version, which to date is the longest version available on DVD anywhere in the world.

On 11 July 2007, Royal Jordanian celebrated thirty years of non-stop service between Amman and New York City, making it the longest serving Arab airline to this gateway to the U. S .. RJ won the " Airline Strategy Award " in the technology category at the sixth annual Airline Strategy Awards on 16 July 2007.

The school department has been experiencing many changes in the past decade, with the opening of a new high school, the moving of the former Middle School to the High School, and two venerable elementary schools-Job S. Gidley ( the town's longest serving school ) and Andrew B. Cushman-closing in 2007.

Also in 2007, the parade was the longest ever ( over 3 hours long ) in celebration of the City's 40th Anniversary.

According the United States Census Bureau, residents of Linton Hall had an average commute of 46. 3 minutes each way between 2005 and 2007, the longest average commute for the period in the nation.

* H. Emory Widener, Jr., ( 1923 – 2007 ), born and died in Abingdon, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and one of the longest serving federal judges in United States history.

Real Sociedad were founder members of La Liga in 1928, and their longest spell in the top flight was for 40 seasons from 1967 to 2007.

Until her record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody, Barbara Castle held the record as the female MP with the longest continuous service.

The longest serving member of the clergy is Provost John Devane, parish priest at St Matthew's, West Norwood, since May 1970, who retired in September 2007.

In late September 2007, Dunwoody beat Irene Ward's record of the longest total service for a woman MP, at 37 years, 9 months.

In early December 2007, she beat Barbara Castle's record of the longest unbroken service for a woman MP, at 33 years, 9 months.

The longest land tunnel in the world, the Lötschberg Base Tunnel, is in operation since late 2007, connecting by rail the town of Frutigen in canton Bern, with the town of Visp in canton Valais / Wallis.

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The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, which was formed in 1909 and once included Cole Porter as a member.

In ambiguous usages, the longest possible name was taken, for example was not treated as, whether or not and had been declared.

The longest part was the shaft with the thicker stalk closer to the tip of the harpoon.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

This was the occasion of the longest and most emotional of Bernard's letters.

At 68 minutes, it was his longest picture to date.

At the Academy Awards gala, Chaplin was given a twelve-minute standing ovation, the longest in the Academy's history.

The longest lasting of the ten governments between 1924 and 1932 was that of General Carlos Ibáñez, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship.

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

It was the longest game in Rockies history, in terms of both total innings and total length of time.

The 22-inning affair was the longest since August 31, 1993, when the Minnesota Twins, at home, defeated the Cleveland Indians, 5 – 4, in 22 innings.

Bill Podmore was the show's longest serving producer.

That three game sweep was Dallas ' first over any opponent and the longest against the Eagles since 1992 – 1995 when Dallas won seven straight matches against Philadelphia.

John Forrest was the longest serving president of Dalhousie, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.

It was the Wings ' first Stanley Cup since 1955, breaking the longest drought ( 42 years long ) in the league at that time.

His inauguration in September 1948 initiated what was to become the longest period of constitutional rule since the 1912-24 heyday of the Liberal plutocracy.

The Nile Valley and Delta, the most extensive oasis on earth, was created by the world's longest river and its seemingly inexhaustible sources.