The wineskins episode near the end of the interpolated tale " The Curious Impertinent " in chapter 35 of the first part of Don Quixote is a clear reference to Apuleius, and recent scholarship suggests that the moral philosophy and the basic trajectory of Apuleius's novel are fundamental to Cervantes's program.

* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

rightThe Mariner 10 spacecraft launched on November 3, 1973 and was the first to use a gravity assist trajectory, accelerating as it entered the gravitational influence of Venus, then being flung by the planet's gravity onto a slightly different course to reach Mercury.

Overseas militias were first raised in Jamestown, Virginia, and in Bermuda, where the Bermuda Militia followed a similar trajectory over the next two centuries to that in Britain.

* 1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.

These contacts usually consist first of the bump or pass so that the ball's trajectory is aimed towards the player designated as the setter ; second of the set ( usually an over-hand pass using wrists to push finger-tips at the ball ) by the setter so that the ball's trajectory is aimed towards a spot where one of the players designated as an attacker can hit it, and third by the attacker who spikes ( jumping, raising one arm above the head and hitting the ball so it will move quickly down to the ground on the opponent's court ) to return the ball over the net.

The first reusable spacecraft, the X-15, was air-launched on a suborbital trajectory on July 19, 1963.

NASA considered launching Apollo missions directly into lunar trajectories but adopted the strategy of first entering a temporary parking orbit and then performing a separate burn several orbits later onto a lunar trajectory.

The first reusable spacecraft, the X-15, was air-launched on a suborbital trajectory on July 19, 1963.

The spacecraft, rather than being sent on a straight trajectory toward the Moon, was placed first in a low Earth orbit ( 167 to 182 km altitude ) and then the rocket stage reignited to send it on a curving path towards the Moon.

Pioneer 4 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft launched as part of the Pioneer program on a lunar flyby trajectory and into a heliocentric orbit making it the first U. S. probe to escape from the Earth's gravity.

Pieces can form a two-layer blocking wall, deflecting the opponent from the centre and forcing them into a longer trajectory ; however, if the opponent builds an adjacent wall, then the first player to disband his wall usually suffers a strategic disadvantage.

On February 25, 2007, the craft was scheduled for a low-altitude bypass of Mars, to correct the trajectory after the first launch in 2003 was delayed by one year.

His books, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture ( 1750 ) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (" History of Ancient Art ", 1764 ) were the first to distinguish sharply between Ancient Greek and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a trajectory from growth to maturity and then imitation or decadence that continues to have influence to the present day.

It would also be the first time that the S-IVB third stage would be restarted in Earth orbit, and the first time that the Apollo spacecraft would reenter the Earth's atmosphere at the speed of a lunar return trajectory.

The last of these was the first step into the space age as its trajectory took it through the stratosphere, higher and faster than any aircraft.

This is usually proposed to be done by flying a compromise trajectory that keeps the first stage above or close to the launch site at all times, or by using small airbreathing engines to fly the vehicle back, or by recovering the first stage downrange and returning it some other way ( often landing in the sea, and returning it by ship.

The launch, which took place on 6 April 1984, was the first direct ascent trajectory for a shuttle mission.

The mission marked the first direct ascent trajectory for the Space Shuttle, which reached its 288-nautical-mile -( 533-km )- high orbit using its Orbiter Maneuvering System ( OMS ) engines only once, to circularize its orbit.

When it first appeared, the Lebel's 8 × 50R smokeless ammunition allied to its longer range and flatter trajectory brought a revolution in infantry armament.

This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.

The Phoenix lander was placed on a trajectory of such precision that its first trajectory course correction burn, performed on August 10, 2007 at 7: 30 a. m. EDT ( 11: 30 UTC ), was only 18 m / s.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.

Means tried her first.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

This was a continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

The second is the collateral appeal or post-conviction petition, in which the petitioner-appellant files the appeal in a court of first instance — usually the court that tried the case.

The Ionian School of philosophers were the first natural philosophers ( φυσιολόγοι: physiologoi ) who tried to explain phenomena according to non-supernatural laws, and Pythagoras introduced the abstract mathematical-relations which formed the basis of the science of mathematics.

Towards the end of October, Castel's new anti-plague serum is tried for the first time, but it cannot save the life of Othon's young son, who suffers greatly, as Paneloux, Rieux, and Tarrou look on in horror.

James Bradley first tried to measure stellar parallaxes in 1729.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first ; and if they had more than their fair share of service, it was correspondingly easy for them to reduce any that tried to leave the confederacy.

Lesbos tried to revolt first, and failed completely.

Forty-two years later, Henry's first biographer, William Wirt, working from oral histories, tried to reconstruct what Henry said.

He especially tried to explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe, being the first scientist to introduce two universes called " sheets ", linked by the Big Bang.

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

This theory therefore utilises Herodotus ' suggestion that after Marathon, the Persian army re-embarked and tried to sail around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly ; however, according to the first theory this attempt would have occurred before the battle ( and indeed have triggered the battle ).

Morris himself became the first person tried and convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.