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The Lunar Module Orion, with Young and Duke inside, landed north and west of the planned landing site at 104 hours, 29 minutes, and 35 seconds into the mission, at 2: 23: 35 UTC on 21 April.
The drive was smoother than that of the previous day, as the craters were more shallow and boulders were less abundant north of the immediate landing site.
After the plane penetrated through the tower, part of the plane's landing gear and fuselage came out the north side of the tower and crashed through the roof and two of the floors of 45 – 47 Park Place, between West Broadway and Church Street, ( 600 feet ( 180 meters )) north of the former World Trade Center.
In February 1498, Vasco da Gama continued north, landing at the friendlier port of Malindi-whose leaders were then in conflict with those of Mombasa-and there the expedition first noted evidence of Indian traders.
Although the Celina ferry landing no longer exists, Celina still connects the north and south by highway.
The provisions convoy approached the landing of Port Saint-Loup, across the river from the English bastille of Saint-Loup on the north bank.
The Stanleys had been communicating with the exiled Henry Tudor for some time and Tudor's strategy of landing in Wales and heading east into central England depended on the acquiescence of Sir William Stanley, as Chamberlain of Chester and north Wales, and by extension on that of Lord Stanley himself.
In late July, Rupert sailed out again, trying to lure the Dutch fleet to the north, pretending to attempt a landing at Den Helder.
The landing target was Sinus Medii ( Central Bay ) at 0. 4 ° north latitude and 1. 33 ° west longitude.
A breakwater, barge landing, boat launch ramp and boat lift are available on the north shore.
A short distance north of the landing, the Nenana River meets the Tanana River, providing easy access to the river system of the Tanana River and Minto Flats.
Within a generation of the first Maryland settlers ' landing at St. Clement's Island, they pushed the frontiers of the colony north and west toward the Potomac and Port Tobacco rivers.
Oak Bluffs is also the ssite of Trade Winds Airport, a private grass landing strip located just north of Sengekontacket Pond.
In 1752, King George II made the first official grant for ferry service, the ferry house north of Hoboken primarily used for farm produce, and likely was sold at the Greenwich Village landing that became Weehawken Street.
The cemetery can be seen on the side of the landing strip to the north.
The reservation has a boat landing north of the city where walleyes and other fish can be caught.
This runway, located 360 metres north of the existing runway and parallel to it and is equipped with the latest meteorological, airfield lighting and instrument landing systems to give the airport a Category II classification.
Meanwhile, further north, Colonel Sainte-Croix, aide-de-camp to Maréchal André Masséna had 1, 500 men of IV Corps embarked on landing vessels and crossed the river, without meeting any opposition.
There is a landing place used by the tourist boats just north of Am Buachaille, but disembarkation is only possible in calm conditions.
A limited number of areas suitable for glider landings and a reluctance from troop command to fly too near to Arnhem, exposing them to flak from Deelen airfield after the drop, meant that Urquhart was forced to pick drop zones ( DZ ) and landing zones ( LZ ) up to from Arnhem itself, on the north side of the river.
The small boats without skilled crews, the strong current and poor choice of landing site on the north bank meant that of the 315 men who embarked, only a handful reached the British lines on the other side.
On 23 March 1802 British explorer Matthew Flinders, Commanding HMS Investigator, named the land " Kanguroo ( sic ) Island " after landing near Kangaroo Head on the north coast of Dudley Peninsula.
It is believed that Maori came to Heretaunga by canoe, travelling down the coast from the north, landing at Wairoa, Portland Island, the Ahuriri Lagoon at Westshore, and at Waimarama.
With the landing area secure, more troops and heavy equipment came ashore and the invasion proceeded north to capture the airfields and the remainder of the island.

landing and Gaba
However, because it was not possible to land the entire force on the limited beaches at Helles, a secondary landing by the Australian ( and ) New Zealand Army Corps, north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast, was planned.
The ANZAC landing area was a broad, four mile ( 6 km ) stretch of beach from about a mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of Gaba Tepe to a point near Fisherman's Hut, north of Anzac Cove.
For whatever reason, these first boats which were meant to land on a two mile ( 6 km ) front between Hell Spit and Gaba Tepe ended up concentrated about Ari Burnu, 1. 5 miles ( 2. 4 km ) north of their intended landing area — in fact, in the landing area of the 2nd Brigade which was to follow.
They too had moved too far to the north but were in places closer to the planned landing area — the Beagle unloaded south of Hell Spit on the intended beach, far enough south in fact that she came under machine gun fire from Gaba Tepe.
He believed the Gaba Tepe landing was a feint and that the main blow would fall at Bulair, where the peninsula joins the Ottoman mainland.
Another landing was made to the north at Gaba Tepe by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ).
However, just as the original landing site at Helles in April had insufficient space to land all the troops available, and so a secondary landing was to be made north of Gaba Tepe, now in July there was insufficient room to accommodate all the new troops within the congested Anzac perimeter, nor was there room to manoeuvre them in battle, and so a new landing at Suvla was planned which would link up with the forces at Anzac.

landing and Tepe
The original plan called for the capture of Mal Tepe, halfway across the peninsula, on the first day but only if the landing was successful would this objective be pursued by the main force ; the Australian 1st Brigade and the two brigades of the New Zealand and Australian Division.
When reports reached Mustafa Kemal that the Australians were making for the peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971, he was convinced the landing was not a feint and so, making a decision that probably doomed the Anzac landing to failure, if not defeat, he personally led the entire 57th Regiment forward to counter-attack, setting up his headquarters on the third ridge at Scrubby Knoll ( understandably known to the Turks as Kemal Tepe — " Kemal's Hill ").
The 11th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, having come ashore from the destroyer HMS Grampus, had the greatest success of the landing, managing to find its way to the Kiretch Tepe ridge and fight its way some distance along it to the east for the loss of 200 casualties.

landing and on
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.
Care should be taken to see that the hands are placed on the floor before the kick starts and also that the landing foot is brought as close to the hands as possible.
Each time in, the unhappy pilot, pushing his luck, begged the postal officials that met him to find a safer landing place, preferably on the flat-topped hills across the Winooski River.
With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.
Ducking, Mickey tripped and fell to one side, landing heavily on the wood floor.
He paused on the landing to steady his breathing and then bent to examine the single door by the light of the weak bulb overhead.
First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.
The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.
While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.
Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.
* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would be beneficial for the network of geophysical instruments, portions of which were deployed on each Apollo expedition beginning with Apollo 12.
With the assistance of orbital photography obtained on the Apollo 14 mission, the Descartes site was determined to be safe enough for a manned landing.
Following this, the crew donned their spacesuits and rehearsed procedures that would be used on landing day.
Throttle-down of the LM's landing engine occurred on time and the spacecraft tilted forward to its landing orientation at an altitude of.
Upon completing their initial adjustments, the pair configured Orion for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their spacesuits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site.

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