Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

A seventh landing mission, the 1970 Apollo 13 flight, failed in transit to the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support, forcing the crew to use the Lunar Module as a " lifeboat " for these functions to return to Earth safely.

It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit ; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

By the time mission control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was approximately away from the Earth, traveling at about.

According to mission rules, Orion would have then re-docked with Casper, in case mission control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth.

Portions of the Apollo 17 mission are dramatized in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon episode entitled " Le Voyage dans la Lune ".

As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

After the huge Spiderdemon that masterminded the invasion is destroyed in the final mission, a hidden doorway back to Earth opens for the hero, who has " proven too tough to be contained ".

The mission was re-profiled to use several gravitational slingshots, referred to as the " VEEGA " or Venus Earth Earth Gravity Assist maneuvers, to provide the additional velocity required to reach its destination.

* 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

Superman and Batman embark on a mission to rid Earth of kryptonite, a mission that almost fails when the cornered Lana Lang, attempting to protect LexCorp investments, launches a large number of dirty kryptonite warheads, tainting the whole Earth atmosphere.

Louis IX took very seriously his mission as " lieutenant of God on Earth ", with which he had been invested when he was crowned in Rheims.

In the suborbital flight, the space craft went directly from launch to re-entry at the highest point ( point E on the picture ); in the orbital mission on the other hand, the craft went into an orbit around the Earth.

Zubrin's alternative to this " Battlestar Galactica " mission strategy ( dubbed so by its detractors for the large, nuclear powered spaceships that supposedly resembled the science-fiction spaceship of the same name ) involved a longer surface stay, a faster flight-path in the form of a conjunction class mission, in-situ resource utilization and craft launched directly from the surface of Earth to Mars as opposed to be being assembled in orbit or by a space-based drydock.

* Marvin the Martian ( 1948 ) is one of Looney Tunes ' most prominent characters, a soft-spoken villain, whose mission throughout his appearances is to destroy Earth because it " Obstructs his view of Venus ".

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

Vincent Berger's mission is a failure because the Ottoman nationalism on which Enver Pasha counted does not exist.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

However needed this may be, the fundamental problem is not information but active commitment to the total mission of the church of Christ in the world.

On the other hand, many a pastor is so absorbed in ministering to the intimate, personal needs of individuals in his congregation that he does little or nothing to lead them into a sense of social responsibility and world mission.

A crucial question, therefore, is what evangelism and mission actually mean in metropolitan Protestantism.

the mission of the church is actually a process of informal co-optation ; ;

The transmutation of mission to co-optation is further indicated by the insignificance of educational activities, worship, preaching, and publicity in reaching new members.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

Today its focus is on ethics and it is known as the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the voice for ethics in international affairs.

The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is " to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.

He is the first human to die during a space mission.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

The nature of these services is described in ARIN's mission statement:

A brief account of Christianity in Roman Britain, including the martyrdom of St Alban, is followed by the story of Augustine's mission to England in 597, which brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons.

It is clear that a single bishop was expected to lead the church in each centre of Christian mission, supported by a council of presbyters ( a distinct and subordinate position ) with a pool of deacons.

The Apollo 16 mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972.

Coleman launched on December 15, 2010 ( December 16 Baikonur time ), aboard Soyuz TMA-20 to join the Expedition 26 mission aboard the International Space Station.

In June 2001, NASA launched a second CMB space mission, WMAP, to make much more precise measurements of the great scale anisotropies over the full sky.

A third space mission, the ESA ( European Space Agency ) Planck Surveyor, launched in May, 2009 and is currently performing an even more detailed investigation.

* 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched.

The Gaia mission, to be launched in March 2013, will use astrometry to determine the true masses of 1000 nearby exoplanets.

* 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

( 1 ) In December 1911, Bernardo Reyes ( the popular general whom Porfirio Díaz had sent to Europe on a diplomatic mission because Díaz worried that Reyes was going to challenge him for the presidency ) launched a rebellion in Nuevo León, where he had previously served as governor.

Named after the Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

* 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

* 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U. S. Space Shuttle program.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

* 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

* 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.

* 1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

On January 19, 2006, the first spacecraft mission to explore the Kuiper belt, New Horizons, was launched.

* 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.

* 1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission ( STS-49 ).

He will show and comment photos of primitive forms of life which he gathered to serve as references for the observations to be made by the ESA ExoMars mission ( to be launched in 2018 ).

* 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.