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crew and performed
The first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket performed nominally ; the spacecraft, along with the mission's three crew members aboard, successfully entered orbit around Earth just under twelve minutes after lift-off.
On day two, the crew performed an electrophoresis experiment, also performed on Apollo 14, in which the astronauts attempted to prove the higher purity of particle migrations in the zero-gravity environment.
Just over three hours before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, changing their velocity by.
What is known is that the crew of the ship Red Dragon, anchored off Sierra Leone, performed Hamlet in September 1607 ; that the play toured in Germany within five years of Shakespeare's death ; and that it was performed before James I in 1619 and Charles I in 1637.
During their stay the crew performed maintenance and replenished their water supplies.
* In the Marx Brothers ' 1931 comedy Monkey Business, Harpo joins a live Punch & Judy show ( performed by an uncredited Al Flosso, a famous American Punchman ) while trying to avoid capture by the crew members of the ship he has stowed away on.
This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and take advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue.
For the sake of preserving some artifacts, he hired a crew, performed such hasty excavations as he could, crated the material and sent it home to John.
Violinist Isaac Stern also visited the group with a CBS film crew, speaking to the young musicians about lyrics and music after Joe Linus performed his song " Circus Lion " for Stern.
* The " Reverse Balducci " was performed by Wade's crew members in the film You Got Served
During the mission Komarov performed various tasks with the other crew members, including medical and navigational tests and observing the Aurora Borealis.
Captain Thomas was in the area drawing up Admiralty Charts in 1848-49, and he and his crew performed archaeological surveys as well resulting in the publication in 1852 of The Celtic Antiquities of Orkney.
Safely back in harbour, Captain Kinross tells the assembled ship's company that during the battle nearly all the crew performed as he would expect ; however one man didn't.
The Apollo 13 crew performed a course correction to put the crippled vehicle on a free return trajectory, passing behind the moon and back to Earth safely without need for further large maneuvers.
The primary duty of the crew was, of course, to maintain the light ; but they also kept record of passing ships, observed the weather, and on occasion performed rescues.
On September 10, 2011, she performed I Will Remember You and Angel at a ceremony in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania, commemorating the passengers and crew of hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 who fought the hijackers and brought down their airplane on September 11, 2001.
* In the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World a trepanation is performed on a crew member, who had suffered a severe depressed fracture of the skull, by the ship's doctor, with the hole covered by using a coin that had been hammered into shape by the ship's blacksmith.
During the summer of 1859 Monturiol performed more than 20 dives in the Ictineo, with his business partner and shipbuilder as crew.
* STS-96 ( May 27 to June 6, 1999 ) aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery was a 10-day mission during which the crew performed the first docking with the International Space Station and delivered four tons of logistics and supplies in preparation for the arrival of the first crew to live on the station early next year.
* STS-107 ( January 16 to February 1, 2003 ) aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia was a 16 day mission during which the crew performed over 80 experiments testing applications of microgravity to gain insight into the environment of space and improve life on Earth as well as enable future space exploration.
The crew conducted a lightning survey with hand-held cameras, and performed medical experiments on themselves for two student projects.

crew and Apollo
Apollo succeeded despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a pre-launch test.
A seventh landing mission, the 1970 Apollo 13 flight, failed in transit to the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support, forcing the crew to use the Lunar Module as a " lifeboat " for these functions to return to Earth safely.
* 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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 served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a capsule communicator for Apollo 11.
Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.
However, after the cancellations of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were finalized in September 1970 it meant that this crew would not rotate to a lunar mission as planned.
Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were recycled to serve as members of the backup crew after returning from Apollo 14, while Pogue and Carr were re-assigned to the Skylab program where they later flew on Skylab 4.
As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 were participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on 16 April.
Apollo 16 would spend one less day in lunar orbit after surface exploration had been completed to afford the crew contingency time to compensate for any further problems and to conserve expendables.
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.
Additionally, there have been fictional astronauts in film, literature and television who have been described as " the last man to walk on the Moon ", implying they were crew members on Apollo 17.
* 1968 – Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so.
* 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.

crew and light
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.
Weather, the ambience of natural light, cast and crew availability, or any number of other circumstances can also influence a shooting schedule.
To get the animation he wanted, the effects crew filmed the miniature model set of New York City they used for other scenes under black light with reflective tape placed along every edge of the model buildings.
* 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
In light of the fear ignited by 9 / 11, flight crew and passengers were quick to wrestle the man to the ground and subdue him.
Batteries towed light field guns where most or all of the crew rode horses into battle.
In 2002, Peter Hudson and the crew of Hudzo Design, LLC created " Sisyphish ", a large scale, 3D zoetrope that uses a strobe light to animate human figures swimming on a large rotating disk.
SAWs are light enough to be operated by one man, as opposed to heavy machine guns such as the Browning M2, which fire more powerful cartridges but require a crew to operate at full effectiveness.
When Hawks, who was an even older friend of all of the crew and technicians, asked a lighting tech who he'd rather drop a light on, Hawks won the argument and Hepburn agreed to behave herself on set.
Hunt recruits the salvage crew to join him in an attempt to restore the Systems Commonwealth and " rekindle the light of civilization.
" Wayne and Garth then decide to do the " mega happy ending ", where Frankie gives Cassandra a six album record deal, Wayne and Cassandra kiss, Russell and the crew member who keeps saying " I love you " get together, while he announces how he discovered that " platonic love can exist between two grown men ", Noah is glad people are seeing him in a new light after he started sponsoring Wayne's World, Benjamin realizes being successful doesn't get you everything, and Garth finally gets his dream girl ( Donna Dixon ).
Some of the film's cast and crew, including Spielberg, retrospectively view the film in an unfavorable light.
In light of their heroics, Starfleet Command exonerates Uhura and the rest of Kirk's crew for their illegal activities.
The visit also brought to light the identity of islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana who had received little recognition for finding the shipwrecked crew after searching for days in their dugout canoe.
To make sure the vessels were seamlessly inserted into star fields in postproduction, the crew filmed second passes in overexposed yellow light, which reduced light spillage onto the bluescreen backdrop.
Studies, some done in light of British Airtours Flight 28M, have concluded that assertive cabin crew are essential for the rapid evacuation of aeroplanes.
The same crew will generally also program cues and operate the light board during rehearsals and performances.
Focus can run much smoother if the Associate LD and the Assistant LD are keeping good track of which lights have been focused, what's coming up next and directing the electrics crew so that there is minimal down time between focusing each light.
Originally the crew considered using piano wire but were afraid the light glinting on it would show up on film.
left On 18 February 1944, the British light cruiser Penelope was struck by two torpedoes off the coast of Anzio and sunk with a loss of 417 crew.

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