* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

This was the first launch delay in the Apollo program due to a technical problem.

After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.

The AIM-54 / AWG-9 combination was the first to have multiple track capability ( up to 24 targets ) and launch ( up to 6 Phoenixes can be launched nearly simultaneously ); the large missile is equipped with a conventional warhead.

In 2011 passenger traffic at Bulgaria's three major airports-Sofia, Varna and Bourgas-grew up to near 10 % on the year to 3. 89 million in the first half of 2011, due to rise of customers using international routes and launch of new destinations.

On launch the rocket engine's first chamber developing thrust would power the missile along a predetermined course to the target at around Mach 1. 5.

STS-51-F's first launch attempt on 12 July 1985 was halted with the countdown at T-3 seconds after main engine ignition, when a malfunction of the number two Space Shuttle Main Engine ( SSME ) coolant valve caused the shutdown of all three main engines.

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

) Thus, when Odo returned, he was able to launch a near complete surprise attack on the besieging force, scattering it at the first attack, and slaughtering units caught resting or that fled without weapons or armour.

Etisalat became the first company to launch 3G services in 2012 followed MTN and Roshan.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

SuperVision is the first digital cable television in Mongolia and other CATVs are planning to launch digital cable television with CA systems.

Later historians have suggested that Eisenhower privately wanted the Soviet Union to launch a satellite first, thereby establishing an overflight precedent that would allow the United States to orbit without Soviet protests, as the latter's closed society had far more to lose from such overflights than the United States did.

* 2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

* 1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

* 1962 – NASA Relay 1 launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

Astronauts also used EVA in 1973 to repair launch damage to Skylab, the United States ' first space station.

The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before the first manned Gemini was launched.

The Explorer program was the United States's first successful attempt to launch an artificial satellite.

* 2012 – The European Space Agency ( ESA ) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe ’ s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

* 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105, 000 Allied casualties.

Its bulbous warhead required it to be fired from a grounded frame, called the M-30 ( single frame, four round ; later double frame, 8 round ), instead of a launch rail mounted on a truck.

According to Russian sources, the official decision to launch Sputnik 2 was made on October 10 or 12, leaving the team only four weeks to design and build the spacecraft.

The 32X hit the market in North America with four launch titles: Doom, Star Wars Arcade, Virtua Racing Deluxe, and Cosmic Carnage.

Over the next eight months following its launch, the IDA grew to 51 member states and loaned $ 101 million ($ 784. 2 million in 2012 dollars ) to four developing countries.

A four stage Athena II using Castor 120s as both first and second stages became the first commercially developed launch vehicle to launch a lunar probe ( Lunar Prospector ) in 1998.

Wreckage said by the Air Force to be consistent with launch number four was found 75 miles northwest of RoswellA.

The show performed well in its new Thursday night slot, spending four seasons there and helping to launch Martin, another Fox hit in 1992.

The N1 failed on all four of its test flights, and was never used to launch any Mars spacecraft.

* 1962-1963-Convair-produced Mercury-Atlas rockets launch four manned Mercury missions into low Earth orbit, including John Glenn.

In 241, Sun Quan would launch the last major assault against Wei of his reign, in light of Cao Rui's death in 239, but he rejected a strategy offered by Yin Zha ( 殷札 ) to attack Wei in coordinated effort with Shu on four different fronts, and the campaign ended in failure as well.

Both the four stage Juno I and three stage Jupiter-C launch vehicles were the same height ( 21. 2 meters ), with the added fourth stage booster of the Juno I being enclosed inside the nose cone of the third stage.

Since its launch in 1998, the site has provided information on all four physical Tate galleries ( Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern ) under the same domain.

At its launch attempt on December 6, 1957 at Cape Canaveral, the booster ignited and began to rise ; but about two seconds after liftoff, after rising about four feet ( 1. 2 m ), the rocket lost thrust and began to fall back to the launch pad.

Remarkably for a newly developed system, all four attempted launched were partly successful, the only failure occurring on the second launch when the payload was inserted into a lower orbit than planned.

CONTOUR launched on a Delta 7425 ( a Delta II Lite launch vehicle with four strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 27 third stage ) on July 3, 2002 at 6: 47: 41 UT ( 2: 47: 41 a. m. EDT ) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

In separate announcements, just four days apart, both nations publicly announced that they would launch artificial Earth satellites by 1957 or 1958.

After the DOS-2 failure, the USSR attempted to launch four more Salyut-class stations through 1975, with another failure due to an explosion of the final rocket stage, which punctured the station with shrapnel so that it wouldn't hold pressure.

In Penang, Malaysia, the Penang Philomatic Union had its premises at 120 Armenian Street in 1910, during the time when Sun spent more than four months in Penang, convened the historic " Penang Conference " to launch the fundraising campaign for the Huanghuagang Uprising and founded the Kwong Wah Yit Poh ; this house, which has been preserved as the Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang ( formerly called the Sun Yat Sen Penang Base ), was visited by President designate Hu Jintao in 2002.

Jet airliners were added in 1960, with the introduction of the Douglas DC-8 and four years laters Eastern beacme the launch customer of the Boeing 727 and the shuttle became all-jet in 1968 with a fleet of dedicated Boeing 727s and DC – 9s.

Construction of GIOVE-A2 was terminated due to the successful launch and in-orbit operation of GIOVE-B.