The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

What Gabriel was asking was that mankind forego all its parochial moral judgments, and contract to let the Angels serve on Earth as it is in Heaven regardless of the applicable Earth laws.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.

TAI in this form was synchronised with Universal Time at the beginning of 1958, and the two have drifted apart ever since, due to the changing motion of the Earth.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

Therefore, all primordial americium ( americium that was present on Earth during its formation ) should have decayed by now.

Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

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.

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.

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

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.

At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about away from Earth.

At the beginning of day three, the spacecraft was about away from the Earth.

Just under five hours later, on the CSM's 65th orbit around the Moon, its Service Propulsion System main engine was reignited to propel the craft on a trajectory that would return it to Earth.

At the end of the Apollo 16 crew's final full day in space, the spacecraft was approximately from Earth and closing at a rate of about.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

In the 1972 novel Cyborg, upon which the series was based, Austin remembers watching the Earth " fall away during Apollo XVII.

* July 9, 2007: Spaceship Earth closes for major renovation ; Mickey Mouse wand is removed

If the clouds were removed with all else remaining the same, the Earth would gain this last amount in net radiation and begin to warm up.

But Trevize is troubled by one final piece of missing information: who or what has removed all reference to Earth from the Galactic Library at Trantor, and why.

At the end of the Second Age, Aman was removed from the surface of the Earth to another realm, and is no longer reachable by ordinary means of travel.

Perhaps the most controversial and important work of the time period was a treatise printed in Nuremberg, entitled De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium: in it, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus removed the Earth from its privileged position in the universe, which had far-reaching effects, not only in science, but in literature and its approach to humanity, hierarchy, and truth.

Materials removed from the Earth are needed to provide humans with food, clothing, and housing and to continually upgrade the standard of living.

As a result of their sin, they were removed from heaven and placed on Earth to live and die.

The museum will receive several artifacts, including a former camera, that were removed from the Hubble Space Telescope and returned to Earth after Space Shuttle mission STS-125.

Page 44 of Earth ( The Book ) is dedicated to Mr. Potato Head, and he is described as a " popular children's toy whose sensory organs could be quickly removed and stored in " an unfortunate location.

Differentiation on Earth had probably already separated many lighter materials toward the surface already, so that the impact removed a disproportionate amount of silicate material from Earth, and left the majority of the dense metal behind.

In the 2009 three-part special " Back to Earth ", Rimmer wears a blue suit similar to his Series III and VI green suit but with the addition of a plain waist-high belt worn over the jacket and a quilted collar ; possibly being part of a quilted under shirt which though the jacket is not removed at all during any of the 3 episodes.

In the final chapter of, when Earth is destroyed by the Vogons and the bird dies with it, the Earth is destroyed in all other universes — finally removed from the WSOGMM.

In the television series Stargate SG-1, the Jaffa are explained as being an offshoot of humanity bred by the Goa ' uld to suit their purposes, hence their almost-human appearance and physiology, while many other " alien " characters are actually the descendants of humans who were removed from Earth by the Goa ' uld for use as slaves.

In order to create more space inside the descent module, the cosmonaut's ejection seat was removed, meaning that the Voskhod crews would return to Earth inside their spacecraft, unlike the Vostok cosmonauts who ejected and parachuted down separately.

The committee had in the past included members from five affiliated groups ( Education, Environmental and Industrial Geophysics, Geodesy, Geomagnetism and Palaeomagnetism, Seismology and Physics of the Earth ’ s Interior ), however leading up to the 2009 AGM these positions have been removed and an Education Secretary position created.

Upon her arrival on Earth, she was removed from this device, however it had obtained sentience and sought to reclaim her.

Facing death from overexposure to solar radiation, Superman releases Kandor from its bottle on Mars, where they all become super-powered, but are far enough removed from Earth to neither pose a threat to, nor be culturally affected by, humanity.

" At the conclusion of Season 9, Clark, faced with the threat of Zod causing a war between Earth and the Kandorians, used another Kryptonian artifact known as the " Book of Rao " to transport all the Kryptonians on Earth to another planet where they could live and rebuild Krypton in peace, Clark managing to escape relocation due to him being injured by a Blue Kryptonite blade that negated his powers until the transportation effect had passed and Lois removed the blade from his side.

(" All Alone in the Night ") If Clark was implicated, Hague planned to present his evidence to the Earth Senate to have Clark impeached and removed from office.

Just after the ISS flew over the dark side of the Earth, they removed a hatch at the Earth-facing part of the compartment to open it to the vacuum of space and officially begin the spacewalk at 9: 21 a. m CDT.

Uatu is removed from his duty as Watcher of the Earth, but he returns to observe the world he has become so fond of.