* 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972, the mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2: 45 PM EST on 27 April.

Apollo 16 was slated to be the second of the " J-missions ," an Apollo mission type featuring the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), increased scientific capability, and lunar surface stays of three days.

The official mission countdown began on Monday, 10 April 1972 at 8: 30 AM, six days before the launch.

The Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh surrendered on April 17, 1975, just five ( 5 ) days after the US mission evacuated Cambodia.

In October 2004, Coleman served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO 7 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for eleven days.

Kaye flew his own plane to 65 cities in five days on a mission designed to help UNICEF.

A Catholic mission was conducted in the Ottoman days by Assumpionist Fathers ; there are also a number of Armenian and Greek Catholics, with priests of their respective rites.

Carson accepted the mission, and pledged to cross the continent within 60 days.

Space Shuttle Columbia flew 28 flights, spent 300. 74 days in space, completed 4, 808 orbits, and flew in total, including its final mission.

* The plumbing and electrical connections needed for Extended Duration Orbiter ( EDO ) modifications to allow up to a 28-day mission ( although a 28-day mission was never attempted ; the record is 17 days, which was set by Columbia ).

While Space Shuttle Atlantis was refurbished and relaunched in 53 days between missions STS-51-J and STS-61-B, generally months were required to repair an orbiter for a new mission.

Two additional missions followed, with the launch dates of 28 July 1973 ( SL-3 ) and 16 November 1973 ( SL-4 ), and mission durations of 59 and 84 days, respectively.

The assignments were formally made on April 8, four days before the mission, but Gagarin had been a favourite among the cosmonaut candidates for at least several months.

* April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.

: When the President determines that it is necessary to augment the active forces for any operational mission for any unit or any member for not more than 270 days.

The SR mission in the region of Camp Rhino lasted for four days, after which two United States Air Force Combat Control Teams made a nighttime HALO jump to assist the SEALs in guiding in Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit who seized control of the area and established a Forward operating base.

A drag chute is deployed by Space Shuttle Endeavour | Endeavour as it completes a mission of almost 17 days in space on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California.

The last transmission from Mariner 2 was received on January 3, 1963 at 07: 00 UTC, making the total time from launch to termination of the Mariner 2 mission 129 days.

According to NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill, duct tape had been stowed on board every mission since early in the Gemini days.

After 61 days of harsh imprisonment, during which Prince Robert I of Capua's Norman army was repulsed on its rescue mission, Paschal II yielded and guaranteed investiture to the Emperor.

After three days of British bombardment in which 350 bombs partially destroyed the cathedral, the Jesuit school and several civilian buildings, Vernon assumed the impasse in which he was and ordered the withdrawal day 21, leaving the Castle and Greenwich Windsord vessels in the vicinity with a mission to intercept a Spanish ship to approach.

To facilitate overland travel, the mission settlements were situated approximately 30 miles ( 48 kilometers ) apart, so that they were separated by one day's long ride on horseback ( or three days on foot ) along the 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) long " California Mission Trail.

Two of the biggest festivals are the three-day carnival at Binche, near Mons, held just before Lent ( the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter ), and the Procession of the Holy Blood, held in Bruges in May.

On 5 July, however, the French unexpectedly moved west, taking the cities of Bruges and Ghent ( although about 300 British soldiers held out in Ghent for a few days ).

Many exhibitions, especially in the days before good photographs were available, are important in stimulating research in art history ; the exhibition held in Bruges in 1902 ( poster illustrated below ) had a crucial impact on the study of Early Netherlandish painting.

The Directory once brought him on the spur from Bruges early in July, and again from Brest about the end of the same month only to bring him back a few days later.

`` We'd give him things to deliver, letters, checks, deeds and things like that '', remembers his half-brother Walter, still in the real estate business in Savannah, `` and learn days later that he'd absent-mindedly stuffed them into his pocket.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

Oddly, the calls were still heard 11 days after the five were arrested.

I'd been seeing Johnnie almost a year now, but I still didn't want to leave him for five whole days.

A few days after the sermon, Paneloux is taken ill. His symptoms do not conform to those of the plague, but the disease still proves fatal.

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

The company dared consumers to drink Budweiser for five days, and if on the sixth day, if they still preferred the taste of other beers they could go back.

In Thailand, where the Thai solar calendar is used, the months and days have adopted the western standard, although the years are still based on the traditional Buddhist calendar.

Germany still maintained some mounted ( mixed with bicycles ) SS and Cossack units until the last days of the War.

As early as the days of Saladin, and while the Ma ' ans were still in complete control over southern Lebanon, the Shihab tribe, originally Hijaz Arabs but later settled in Ḥawran, advanced from Ḥawran, in 1172, and settled in Wadi al-Taym at the foot of mount Hermon.

Eggs were originally forbidden during Lent as well as on other traditional fast days in Western Christianity ( this tradition still continues among the Eastern Christian Churches ).

This had a glass roof and three glass walls constructed after the model of large studios for still photography, and it was fitted with thin cotton cloths that could be stretched below the roof to diffuse the direct ray of the sun on sunny days.

This custom still has some effect around the world ; for example, with respect to name days in Hungary.

The Constitutional Council shall be consulted with regard to such measures. Parliament shall sit as of right. The National Assembly shall not be dissolved during the exercise of such emergency powers. After thirty days of the exercise of such emergency powers, the matter may be referred to the Constitutional Council by the President of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate, sixty Members of the National Assembly or sixty Senators, so as to decide if the conditions laid down in paragraph one still apply.

We were somewhat startled at the remark, but still more at learning, a few days after, that Melville was really supposed to be deranged, and that his friends were taking measures to place him under treatment.

Caesar did not pursue them until three days after the battle, while still sending messengers to the Lingones warning them not to assist the Helvetii in any way.

The holiday was, and for many still is, a festival of the hearth and home, and a celebration of the lengthening days and the early signs of spring.

This land was still under the control of King Abimelech as it was in the days of Abraham.

Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army.

( All of these churches still exist, but none is in the architectural state of Calvin's days.