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.

As the Apollo 16 spacecraft was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four, flight days two and three were largely preparatory days, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research.

Just before the end of flight day three at 59 hours, 19 minutes, 45 seconds after liftoff, while from the Earth and from the Moon, the spacecraft's velocity began increasing as it accelerated towards the Moon after entering the lunar sphere of influence.

Shortly after waking up on the morning of flight day six three and a half minutes early, Young and Duke discussed with mission control in Houston the day's timeline of events.

United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.

They were the most consistent team in the top flight of English football over the three seasons immediately before the Second World War.

A possible score out of ten is broken down into three points for the takeoff, three for the flight, and three for the entry, with one more available to give the judges flexibility.

Usually a score considers three elements of the dive: the approach, the flight, and the entry.

Untethered spacewalks were only performed on three missions in 1984 using the Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ), and on a flight test in 1994 of the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue ( SAFER ).

The schedules are based on three routes-a Northern Shuttle and the Southern Shuttle that each have one flight a day and the East-West Shuttle that has a morning and an evening flight every day.

The flight rotation put these three in line to fly as prime crew on the third following mission, Apollo 18.

ICAO has, however, conducted three investigations involving air disasters, two of which concerned passenger airliners shot down while in international flight over hostile territory.

* 1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven.

Each flight of locks will be accompanied by nine water reutilization basins ( three per lock chamber ), each basin being approximately 70 meters ( 230 ft ) wide, 430 meters ( 1410 ft ) long and 5. 50 meters ( 18 ft ) deep.

They were followed by three hijacker-pilots, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah early in the summer of 2000 to undertake flight training in south Florida.

These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.

After the flight, Columbia spent the next three years at the Rockwell Palmdale facility, undergoing modifications that removed the Orbiter Test Flight hardware and bringing it up to similar specifications as that of its sister Orbiters.

After test failures with the first three flight tests because of guidance and sensor problems, the fourth and final test on June 10, 1984 was successful, intercepting the Minuteman RV with a closing speed of about 6. 1 km / s at an altitude of more than 160 km.

Though several types of Sentinels have been introduced, the typical Sentinel is three stories tall, capable of flight, projects energy blasts, and can detect mutants.

On September 11, 2001, the flight carried only 56 passengers and 9 crew members, which represented a 33 percent load factor — well below the average load factor of 49 percent in the three months preceding September 11.

Excluding the hijackers, the passengers on the flight included 35 men, 12 women, and three children who were all under the age of 5.

In the testing room, three of the veteran salesmen served as antagonists.

Donald Dewar was selected for the seat Glasgow Garscadden by a majority of three, after Dewar's friend the veteran Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers MP Willie Small died unexpectedly.

Gen. Charles E. Sawyer's Federal Hospitalization Bureau, along with three other bureaus that dealt with veteran affairs.

It hired three veteran consultants, who told the studio to " think small ".

Flynt was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, the first of three children to 23-year-old Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. ( August 16, 1919 – July 1, 2005 ), a sharecropper and a World War II veteran, and 17-year-old Edith ( née Arnett ; August 13, 1925 – March 29, 1982 ), a homemaker.

At mid-season, the Bulls traded their top three scorers — Mercer, Artest, and Miller along with Kevin Ollie — to the Indiana Pacers for veteran guard Jalen Rose, Travis Best and Norman Richardson.

In December 2011, the Clippers signed Caron Butler to a $ 24 million deal and claimed veteran point guard Chauncey Billups three days later.

In the late 1950s, the Hawks struck gold, picking up three young prospects ( forwards Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita and defenseman Pierre Pilote ), as well as obtaining both star goaltender Glenn Hall and veteran forward Ted Lindsay ( who had just had a career season with 30 goals and 55 assists ) from Detroit.

While guest-starring on Xena, Hercules and Young Hercules, Smith also appeared in other TV shows and films, notably as a Vietnam veteran in the feature film Channelling Baby and as detective John Lawless in three TV movies: Lawless ( 1999 ), Lawless 2: Dead Evidence ( 2000 ), and Lawless 3: Beyond Justice ( 2001 ).

After the departure of the other band members, bassist Jerry Only took over as singer and recruited veteran punk rock musicians to continue the band. As the sole remaining member of the Misfits, Jerry Only took over lead vocal duties in addition to playing bass guitar and recruited veteran musicians Dez Cadena, former guitarist of Black Flag, and Marky Ramone, former drummer of the Ramones, for a Misfits 25th Anniversary Tour which lasted intermittently for nearly three years.

* Bob McBride ( 1922-2011 )-Member of the University of Notre Dame 1946 national championship football team and decorated World War II veteran, receiving three battle stars, a purple heart and the presidential unit citation following the Battle of the Bulge.

Hartley's three most frequently seen regular patients are the mean-spirited and neurotic Elliot Carlin ( Jack Riley ), the milquetoast Marine veteran Emil Peterson ( John Fiedler ), and shy, reserved Lillian Bakerman ( Florida Friebus ), an elderly lady who spent most of her sessions knitting.

" Everyone in the audience applauded and the parade participants at the square grounds ( which included veteran soldiers and officers of the KPA ) shouted " ten thousand years " three times after that.

Ross became a world champion in three weight divisions and was a decorated veteran of World War II.

* My Other Me: A Film About Cosplayers chronicles a year in the life of three different cosplayers: a veteran cosplayer who launched a career from cosplay, a young 14-year-old first-timer, and a transgender who found himself through cosplay ; it is expected to be released in 2012 and was a featured segment on The Electric Playground.

She played for nearly three hours in her second round match against Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm, winning in three tough sets.

Effective 21 October 1918, the Imperial Council parliamentarians representing the empire's ethnically German provinces formed a Provisional National Assembly for their paralyzed rump state and appointed veteran party leader Karl Seitz as one of their three largely coequal chairmen ( 21 October 1918-16 February 1919 ).

Coached for three seasons by Ron Rothstein, their combination of veteran leadership in Debbie Black, Elena Baranova and Sandy Brondello as well youth in Ruth Riley and Sheri Sam, lead them to the playoffs in 2001, but lost in the first round to the New York Liberty in 3 games.

As documented by World War I veteran Laurence Stallings ( in The Doughboys, 1963 ) and by U. S. Divisional Histories, the Medal of Honor was awarded to three American Chauchat gunners in 1918: 1 ) Private Nels Wold ( 35th Division, 138th Infantry ).

Old-time calypsonians and purists, however, preferred rapso's continuation of the lyrical ambidexterity that helped make calypso the world-famous, innovative art form it has become ; many criticized soca's perceived watering-down of calypso, including veteran calypsonians such as Chalkdust, who asked: " Are we to put water in the brandy, singing just two or three words mainstream audiences can understand and dance to?

Arce was ahead on all three judges ' scorecards after 10 rounds, but in the 11th, the veteran Carbajal connected with a stunning right hand and captured the crown via a technical knockout, as Arce was unable to continue.

After three issues, Locke was replaced by Leo Lerman, veteran features editor of Vogue.

His stage directorial debut was in October 2011, with the Broadway play " Relatively Speaking ," in which he guided an ensemble of veteran actors in a production of three comedic one-act plays, written by Elaine May, Woody Allen and Ethan Coen.