Launch of the ascent stage of the Apollo 16 lunar module from the lunar surface.

When the ascent stage ignited, small explosive charges severed the ascent stage from the descent stage and cables connecting the two were severed by a guillotine-like mechanism.

The crew's next task, after jettisoning the Lunar Module ascent stage, was to release a sub-satellite into lunar orbit from the CSM's Scientific Instrument Bay.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

The story of descent ( from Israel, to Tarshish, to the sea, to under the sea ) becomes the story of ascent ( from the belly of the fish, to land, to the city of Nineveh ).

Emergence myths commonly describe the creation of people and / or supernatural beings as a staged ascent or metamorphosis from nascent forms through a series of subterranean worlds to arrive at their current place and form.

As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

Najibullah's ascent to power was proven by turning KHAD from a government organ to a ministry in January 1986.

Greco-Roman poets write about his ascent to heaven after his birth and his obeisance to Zeus, king of the gods, who instructed him to bring lightning and thunder from Olympus.

An image plate from the first palace of Phaistos, seems to be very close to the mythical image of the Anodos ( ascent ) of Persephone.

The myth was represented in a cycle with three phases: the " descent ", the " search ", and the " ascent ", with contrasted emotions from sorrow to joy which roused the mystae to exultation.

** The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.

* Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador.

The theme of The Ladder is not Great Lent itself, but rather it deals with the ascent of the soul from earth to heaven ; that is, from enslavement to the passions to the building up of the virtues and its eventual theosis ( union with God ), which is the goal of Great Lent.

Waterloo Bridge across the River Conwy at Betws-y-Coed, the ascent from there to Capel Curig and then the descent from the pass of Nant Ffrancon towards Bangor.

The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1868, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.

The mysteries represented the myth of the abduction of Persephone from her mother Demeter by the king of the underworld Hades, in a cycle with three phases, the " descent " ( loss ), the " search " and the " ascent ", with the main theme the " ascent " of Persephone and the reunion with her mother.

" To these unfortunate prisoners Orpheus proclaims the message of liberation, that they stand in need of the grace of redeeming gods and of Dionysus in particular, and calls them to turn to God by ascetic piety of life and self-purification: the purer their lives the higher will be their next reincarnation, until the soul has completed the spiral ascent of destiny to live for ever as God from whom it comes.

The left leg is lifted, symbolizing the swift ascent of the consciousness in one step from the Earth to the Heaven.

From the Mongolian plateau the ascent is on the whole gentle, but from the plains of Siberia it is much steeper, despite the fact that the range is masked by a broad belt of subsidiary ranges of an Alpine character, e. g. the Usinsk, Oya, Tunka and Kitoi ranges.

The 1994 County Championship final at Twickenham also provided further evidence of Rotherham's ascent to senior club status in Yorkshire, as Kevin Plant and Craig West were members of the Yorkshire side ( along with soon to be Rotherham scrum-half Guy Easterby-then with Harrogate ) who won the championship in exhilarating fashion with a 26-3 triumph over Durham.

The walker not wishing to combine the ascent of The Saddle with Sgurr na Sgine will find that a rewarding day can be had by continuing westwards over the smaller tops of The Saddle and descending to Shiel Bridge about five kilometres northwest of the starting point above.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

If the grade is known, then the rate of ascent can be calculated using trigonometry.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, many myths feature sacred mountains as " the sites of revelations ": " In myth, the ascent of the holy mountain is a spiritual journey, promising purification, insight, wisdom, or knowledge of the sacred ".

The ascent and emplacement of large volumes of granite within the upper continental crust is a source of much debate amongst geologists.

The Zulu impi is popularly identified with the ascent of Shaka ( also rendered T ' chaka ), ruler of the relatively small Zulu tribe before its explosion across the landscape of southern Africa, but its earliest shape as a purposeful instrument of statecraft lies in the innovations of the Mwetha chieftain Dingiswayo, according to some historians ( Morris 1965 ).

* 1950 – First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander ; Annapurna is summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal

According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent, like Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states.

An " On-Sight " climb refers to the manner of ascent, and is considered the best style attainable.

This phenomenon is called ascent of sap in plants.

The primary difference between the two is that the parasail is more stable during the ascent when towed and importantly kept not in free-glide.

The Greek version of the abduction myth is related to corn-important and rare in the Greek environment, and the return ( ascent ) of Persephone was celebrated at the autumn sowing.

Other industry experts said that it is possible to use cell phones with varying degrees of success during the ascent and descent of commercial airline flights.

Except during ascent or descent, the fully closed circuit rebreather that is operating correctly uses no or very little diluent.

In practice, dive times for rebreathers are more often influenced by other factors, such as water temperature and the need for safe ascent ( see Decompression ( diving )), and this is generally also true for large capacity open circuit sets.

It is a " stage-and-a-half " rocket, jettisoning two of its three engines during ascent but retaining its fuel tanks and other structural elements.

A consequence of the higher loading in some tissues is that many decompression algorithms require deeper decompression stops than a similar decompression dive using air, and helium is more likely to come out of solution and cause decompression sickness following a fast ascent.

At about this time, the people of the lagoon elected their own leader for the first time, although the relationship of this ascent to the uprisings is not clear.

* July 14 – First ascent of the Matterhorn: The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of seven led by the Englishman Edward Whymper ; four die in a fall during the descent.

* The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.

She continues her ascent first in post-war Paris and then in London where she is patronised by the great Marquis of Steyne, who covertly subsidises her and introduces her to London society.