He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

What the man wanted was four persons to volunteer as hostages, along with the crew.

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station | ISS.

Stradling and half a dozen of the crew survived the loss of their ship, but were made prisoners by the Spanish, as the War of the Spanish Succession was going on ( England and the Netherlands were in conflict with France and Spain over who was to be King of Spain ).

Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.

He never contracted the illness, but was nevertheless removed from the crew and replaced by back-up Jack Swigert three days prior to the launch.

He served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a capsule communicator for Apollo 11.

The insignia was designed from ideas originally submitted by the crew of the mission.

The mission's specific landing site was located between two young impact craters, North and South Ray craters — and in diameter, respectively — which provided " natural drill holes " which penetrated through the lunar regolith at the site, thus leaving exposed bedrock that could be sampled by the crew.

The launch itself was nominal, with the crew experiencing vibration similar to that of previous crews.

Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.

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.

The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate " light flashes " that were seen by the astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether or not their eyes were open, on Apollo lunar flights.

After transfers were completed, the crew would sleep before jettisoning the empty lunar module ascent stage the next day, when it was to be crashed intentionally into the lunar surface.

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.

This Aeolus lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.

The " open-topped " design format of the Panzerjäger vehicles was succeeded by the Jagdpanzer '(" hunting tanks ") which mounted the gun in true casemate-style superstructures, completely enclosing the crew compartment in armor that would usually be integral to the hull.

It was a mid-summer shoot and while on location on a huge castle set that was built near Acton, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the cast and crew endured very hot conditions during the day and very cold temperatures at night.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

Less than 35 minutes into the flight, the hijackers stormed the cockpit and forced the passengers, crew, and pilots to the rear of the aircraft.

Her captain, Henry Bostock, and crew, remained Teach's prisoners for about eight hours, and were forced to watch as their sloop was ransacked.

He forced his crew to eat sauerkraut every day, but he had no idea why it prevented scurvy.

They did such a precise job that the construction crew didn't notice until after they had laid the foundation ( and after the prank team informed someone on the project about the shifted stakes ), but California earthquake law forced them to re-survey the site and bring in engineering consultation.

Although his crew forced him to turn back, he was pleased with the prospect of soon finding a sea route to India and named the tip as the Cape of Good Hope.

After an incident with a subspace mine that releases a great amount of tetryon radiation, the crew is forced to abandon ship.

However, during the episode " The Killing Game ," in which the Hirogen had taken over Voyager and forced the crew to participate in holodeck recreations of various combat situations which included World War II Europe, the holodeck character played by B ' Elanna Torres is portrayed as pregnant with a Nazi officer's child.

* August 3 – An Il-76TD piloted by a Russian crew was forced down by Taliban fighter plane.

Dias wanted to continue sailing to India, but he was forced to turn back when his crew refused to go further.

The crew was forced to endure the polar winter there.

Stranded, the 16-man crew was forced to spend the winter on the ice, along with their young cabin boy.

Their mutual animosity is forgotten, however, when they and the entire crew suffer forced amnesia in " Conundrum ".

The crew is forced to abandon the aircraft over the ice and snow of Greenland before arriving at Thule.

He is forced to evacuate his crew, but Andromeda gets caught on the edge of an event horizon of a black hole, freezing him in time.

The unseasonably mild winter of early 1995 forced the crew to move locations frequently to find suitably snow-covered landscapes.

The Enterprise crew, except Spock, are forced to retire for not meeting fitness tests.

The Airbus A330-200 with 146 other passengers and 11 crew members on board was forced to land at Málaga Airport, were the perpetrator was overpowered by Spanish police forces.

As part of Gravano's cooperation agreement, he would never be forced to testify against his former crew.

They boarded a steamboat, which took them downriver 30 miles south of the city, where the crew forced them off.

In Star Trek: Voyager the holodeck was used extensively because ( 1 ) a crew isolated from their homes required more frequent diversion, ( 2 ) the holographic Doctor could, in the early seasons, be located only in the Sick Bay or one of the holodecks, ( 3 ) one of the main characters, Tom Paris, was by nature and calling a writer ( holonovelist ) -- he only joined Star Fleet because his father, Admiral Paris, forced him to.

Lucas is reported to have once visited the set of one of Murphy's films and, while he greeted actors and crew, was forced to salute Murphy-Murphy had the Medal of Honor and Lucas did not-and then had his handshake refused by Murphy, who instead returned the salute and then simply walked away.

Despite Kingsford Smith being exonerated by an official enquiry, many sections of the media and public felt that the forced landing, dubbed the ' Coffee Royal ' incident after the brew of coffee and brandy which the crew had drunk while awaiting rescue, had been a publicity stunt and that Kingsford Smith was responsible for the deaths.

Several of the crew of the Princess were forced to join the pirates, including Roberts.

Eventually, the Ranger was forced to strike her colors and the surviving crew were captured.