The fuel was a considerable operational problem, because fuelling the missile before launch took nearly half an hour, and was quite hazardous.

The first launch took place on 15 May 1957 and led to an unintended crash 400 km from the site.

The trawling scan, in Carroll's research launch Rangitea, took place in October.

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.

The first official appearance of the 924 took place in November 1975 ( as a press launch rather than a motorshow appearance ) at the harbour at La Grande Motte, Camargue in the south of France.

The first test launch took place on 16 August 1968, the first successful at-sea launch was from a surface ship, the historic ( from July 1 to December 16, 1969 ), earning the ship the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the first test launch from a submarine took place on the on 3 August 1970.

It also took pressure from within the royal family for him to launch a hunt for Islamist militants who had attacked Western targets in Saudi Arabia.

According to official records, the spaceflight took 108 minutes from launch to landing.

Sergei Korolev was very nervous in the lead up to the launch ; he experienced chest pains, and took a pill to calm his heart.

The Development Test and Evaluation ( DT & E ) launch phase of the AGM-114B took place in 1984.

The first experimental orbiter was delivered for atmospheric handling test flights in 1976, and the first launch took place on April 12, 1981, with Columbia and STS-1, the first Shuttle orbital flight.

Two previous launches were scrubbed because of lingering thunderstorms and high winds around the launch pad, and the launch took place despite objections from its chief engineer and safety head.

If a short vowel does not precede the sound, the latter spelling is used, as in took, barge, and launch.

An album launch gig took place at The Forum, London on 18 March followed by UK, European and US tours in support of the release.

The first launch from the Guiana space centre took place on 21 October 2011.

Burr took on a shorter project next, playing an underworld boss in a six-hour miniseries, 79 Park Avenue One last attempt to launch a series followed on CBS.

The Conference further took note of Marshal Stalin's statement that the Soviet forces would launch an offensive at about the same time with the object of preventing the German forces from transferring from the Eastern to the Western Front ;

The UK launch of the Fudan Tyndall Centre alliance took place in Norwich in May 2011 when Professor Academician Yuliang Yang was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of East Anglia

During the course of the program, Enterprise and the rest of the launch stack would be exposed to a punishing series of vibration tests simulating as closely as possible those expected during various phases of launch, some tests with and others without the SRBs in place.

A 1983 report from the same source documented allegations of human rights violations against the Miskito Indians, which were alleged to have taken place after opposition forces ( the Contras ) infiltrated a Miskito village in order to launch attacks against government soldiers, and as part of a subsequent forced relocation program.

The launch is expected to take place in Spring 2013.

Whereas reusable SSTOs would reduce per launch costs by making a reusable high-tech vehicle that launches frequently with low maintenance, the " mass production " approach views the technical advances as a source of the cost problem in the first place.

* Alien Legacy, the launch of the Seedship UNS Calypso takes place in 2119 ; the launch of Tantalus takes place in 2135.

and launch them on the world when their time comes.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.

In " The Big Four " ( 1927 ) Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral in order to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

* 1900 – Philippine – American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U. S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130 million cubic foot ( 3. 7 million cubic meter ) Vehicle Assembly Building in which the space vehicle ( launch vehicle and spacecraft ) would be assembled on a Mobile Launcher Platform and then moved by a transporter to one of several launch pads.

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

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

As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 were participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on 16 April.

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS / 6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM.

13 games were announced for the system's launch, including Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position II, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Desert Falcon, Robotron: 2084, Galaga, Xevious, Food Fight, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus !, and Track and Field.

After Capp quit his ghosting job on Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka in 1934 to launch his own strip, Fisher badmouthed him to colleagues and editors, claiming that Capp had " stolen " his idea.

* BBC News report on the ( delayed ) successful launch of the Ariane 5 ECA flight on November 16, 2005.

As with other semi-active radar guided missiles, the missile does not generate radar signals, but instead homes in on reflected continuous-wave signals from the launch platform's radar.

The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile ( AAM ), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on F-14 Tomcats, its only launch platform.

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.

In a second phase, Philip aimed to launch the Bastarnae on an invasion of Italy via the Adriatic coast.

The launch of Bobby Vee's successful musical career resulted from Holly's death, when he was selected to replace Holly on the tour that continued after the plane crash.

The BBC had run the international news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997.

The BBC began simulcasting the channel overnight on terrestrial channel BBC One with the launch of the channel, ending the tradition of a closedown but at the same time effectively making the service available to many more viewers.

Since the launch of Breakfast in 2000, the programme has been simulcast on both BBC One and BBC News, replacing the individual breakfast news programmes that had been run by both channels.

With no effective long-range weapon the original Blue Steel served on after a crash programme of minor modifications to permit a low-level launch at, even though its usefulness in a hot war was likely limited.

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.