* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

The EU ended its mission to reform the country's security forces, EU SSR Guinea-Bissau, on 4 August 2010, a risk that may further embolden powerful generals and drug traffickers in the army and elsewhere.

Aerobraking ended in January, and Odyssey began its science mapping mission on February 19, 2002.

However, his first mission, in which he killed one of his father's old enemies, Dr. Petrie, ended with Shang-Chi learning of Fu Manchu's true, evil nature.

The Xindi arc, started over a year ago in " The Expanse ," ended with the third episode, " Home ," which mostly dealt with Captain Archer's ethically and morally questionable actions during the yearlong mission in the Expanse.

The mission ended in disaster 73 seconds after launch.

The last mission of Atlantis was STS-135, the last flight before the Shuttle program ended.

Conflict became inevitable when a French mission, to peacefully bring Laos under French rule: led by Auguste Pavie to King Chulalongkorn ended in failure.

Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission ( which ended in a fatal crash ).

The mission ended with a touchdown in the " saddle " region of Eros on February 12, 2001.

Known as Adalbert of Prague upon the death of Adalbert of Magdeburg in 981, Adalbert's mission took place in 997 and ended in the missionary's martyrdom at the hands of the pagan Prussians, which occurred in April 997 on the Baltic Sea coast in the vicinity of Truso ( a medieval emporia near modern city of Elbląg ).

However, Tracy ended up back on Earth when the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 showed that the moon was barren of all life.

Interest waned as the US Air Force lost interest in the manned mission, and major development ended during the Space Shuttle design process when it became clear that the highly shaped fuselages made it difficult to fit fuel tankage.

The mission ended July 31, 1999 when the orbiter was guided to an impact into a crater near the lunar south pole in an ( unsuccessful ) attempt to analyze lunar polar water by vaporizing it to allow spectroscopic characterization from Earth telescopes.

Mars 5 collected data for 22 orbits until a loss of pressurization in the transmitter housing ended the mission.

Upon his return to France, he as appointed as the Director of the Ecole Polytechnique, but early in 1798 he was sent to Italy on a mission that ended in the establishment, of the short-lived Roman Republic.

The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing.

The Gabrielino ended their nomadic freedom when they were pressed into service by the mission or fled to escape slave-labor conditions.

The orbiter primary mission ended at the beginning of solar conjunction on November 5, 1976.

Subsequent human-crewed missions repaired the station, and the final mission's crew, Skylab 4, set the Space Race endurance record with 84 days in orbit, when the mission ended on 8 February 1974.

The orbiter primary mission ended at the beginning of solar conjunction on October 5, 1976.

" The group ended in 1981, with P-Orridge declaring " the mission is terminated.

" And now ... my mission is ended and I deliver into your hands ... the remains of this great benefactor of the United States .”

The other instruments functioned without fault before the mission formally ended on 1 October 1966 after the power supply had been depleted.

Forty-two years after Combat Crew training ended at Moody, HQ ACC returned that mission to Moody with the activation of the 479th Flying Training Group under Nineteenth Air Force.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

He, along with Moses, performed " signs " before his people which impressed them with a belief in the reality of the divine mission of the brothers ( Exodus 4: 15 – 16 ).

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

He alerted mission control to the problem before setting up the television camera and planting the flag of the United States with Duke.

Eight minutes before departing the lunar surface, capsule communicator ( CAPCOM ) James Irwin notified Young and Duke from mission control that they were go for liftoff.

Heads of communion from each member of COCU ( as well as the ELCA, a partner in mission and dialogue ) inaugurated the group on the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2002 at the motel where he was killed.

Sixteen people died before policemen and UN mission MONUC took control of the city.

The next EVA was planned to be made by David Scott on Gemini 8, but that mission had to be aborted due to a critical spacecraft malfunction before the EVA could be conducted.

The explosives can only be defused in the last 15 minutes before they detonate, ensuring that Snake does not abandon his mission.

Æthelberht ’ s wife was a Christian and brought a Frankish bishop with her, to attend her at court, so Æthelberht would have had knowledge of Christianity before the mission reached Kent.

# Paul is planning to travel to Rome from Jerusalem and to spend some time there before moving on to Spain ; he hopes the Roman church will support his mission to Spain.

There is a tradition at JPL to eat " good luck peanuts " before critical mission events, such as orbital insertions or landings.

Soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight ; since 1951, they had lofted 12 dogs into sub-orbital space on ballistic flights, working gradually toward an orbital mission possibly some time in 1958.

The episode " Better Than Martians " ( 1994 ) deals with the first manned mission to Mars returning to Earth, but, encountering difficulty upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere and splashing into the ocean, leaving seaQuest to find the capsule before an unfriendly foreign confederation can.

He also launched a mission to convert the Tatars, but he died before it could start.

Not wanting to leave his mission, his first action as Pope was to send out appeals for aid to the Crusaders, and at his final sermon at Acre just before leaving to sail for Italy, he famously remarked, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( a quote from Psalm 137 ).

The agents are, however, captured before completing their mission and are imprisoned in Castle Wolfenstein.

Her continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds ; to seek out new life and new civilizations ; to boldly go where no human has gone before.

Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members.

First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107.

The night before the IRA mission is to be carried out, Dil gets heavily drunk and Fergus has to escort her to her apartment, where Dil asks for Fergus to stay with her.

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.

** STS-109: Space Shuttle Columbia flies the Hubble Space Telescope service mission, penultimate flight before its ill-fated STS-107 mission.