* 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.

In the final design, the SWS and ATM were launched together, but for the single-launch concept to work, the ATM had to pivot 90 degrees on a truss structure from its launch position to its on-orbit orientation, clearing the way for the crew to dock its Apollo Command / Service Module at the axial docking port of the Multiple Docking Adapter.

Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).

The first astronaut to explore the planet has been driven mad, and a crew is launched to investigate.

Its first operational mission, with a four-man crew, was STS-5, which launched on November 11, 1982.

The station was the same diameter as a Titan II upper stage, and would be launched with the crew riding atop in a modified Gemini capsule with a hatch cut into the heat shield on the bottom of the capsule.

Nevertheless, in late July it was announced that the Orbital Workshop would be launched as a part of Apollo mission AS-209, originally one of the Earth-orbit CSM test launches, followed by two Saturn I / CSM crew launches, AAP-1 and AAP-2.

If the CSM failed, the spacecraft and Saturn IB for the next Skylab mission would have been launched with two astronauts to retrieve the crew ; given Skylab's ample supplies, its residents would have been able to wait up to several weeks for the rescue mission.

The station underwent extensive repair during a spacewalk ( extra-vehicular activity, or EVA ) by the crew of the SL-2 mission, which launched on 25 May 1973 atop a Saturn IB.

It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on March 25, 1979, and was first launched on April 12, 1981 — the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight — with a crew of two.

The Exploration Flight Test-1 ( EFT-1 ), an unmanned test flight of Orion's crew module, is planned to be launched in 2014 on a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

The test missile is launched successfully and the crew are both relieved and exhilarated by Vostrikov's bold maneuver.

Like all the early space stations, it was " monolithic ", intended to be constructed and launched in one piece, and then manned by a crew later.

USS Voyager was launched with 141 crew on board.

An additional safeguard is provided by requiring the crew in another Launch Control Center to do the same for the missiles to be launched.

The STS-33 crew launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at night on November 22, 1989, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

However, a terrible storm results in Guybrush's ship crashing into Blood Island, the golden statue of Elaine being launched inland, and the crew deciding to mutiny ; leaving Guybrush on his own again.

The transition from Army camp to missile base solidified on 15 December 1958 when Vandenberg AFB successfully launched its first missile, a PGM-17 Thor IRBM ( Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ) The launch from Vandenberg inaugurated the intermediate-range ballistic missile portion of the Pacific Missile Range and was fired by a crew from the 1st Missile Division.

This loss was partially corrected by the first crew, launched May 25 ; they stayed in orbit with Skylab for 28 days.

The last Saturn IB flight was launched on July 15, 1975, carrying a three-man crew on a six-day mission to dock with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft .. Called the Apollo – Soyuz Test Project ( ASTP ), the primary purpose was to provide engineering experience for future joint space flights, but both spacecraft also had scientific experiments.

The work crew -- led by Captain Samuel B. Norton and master boatbuilder Manuel Swartz Roberts, both of Edgartown -- built and launched the new ferry " on time.

Husband was later assigned to command the crew of STS-107 which was launched early in 2003.

Every crew of every expedition launched from Baikonur leaves behind a signed crew photograph that is displayed behind the glass.

Three Pegasus satellites were launched during 1965, and stayed in orbit from 3 to 13 years.

On opening day a celebrity launched the festival by releasing balloons and stayed to sign autographs.

Barrymore stayed and the performance launched his career.

After finding an audience with Kate Smith's listeners, The Aldrich Family was launched in its own series as a summer replacement program for Jack Benny in NBC's Sunday night lineup, July 2, 1939, and it stayed there until October 1, 1939, when it moved to Tuesday nights at 8 p. m., sponsored by General Foods's popular gelatin dessert Jell-O, which also sponsored Jack Benny at the time.

In 2000 he left his office as Secretary General and took the initiative to establish the think-tank Institute of Reform, where he was managing director, with a clear agenda to prepare policies for a shift of government after the general elections 2002, policies that could not be launched as the Social Democrats stayed in power.

After diplomatic machinations, Norby eventually stayed at Visborg, and he launched a rebellion in Blekinge in April 1525, in the name of Christian II.

The station was launched on the premise of a ' clutter-free ' listen, offering 40 minutes of non-stop music every hour without commercial interruptions, deliberately posed as a direct challenge to the ' might ' of the BBC and a tactic aimed at increasing the total number of hours listeners stayed with the station.

Their next album S ' vetrom uz lice launched them to the very top of the Yugoslav music scene, where they stayed for a long time, releasing a series of successful records.

They then flew on to the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt southeast of Sicily where they stayed overnight, then continued on to Israel refueling once more from tankers launched from the USS Independence south of Crete.

Milutin and Nogai Khan would soon come in conflict because of the war with Vidin principality, Nogai launched a campaign against Serbia but Milutin offered peace after sending his son Stefan Dečanski to Nogai's court, Stefan stayed with his entourage there until 1296 or Nogai Khan's death in 1299.

In this way the Peace Corps can be launched with its own identity and spirit and yet receive the necessary assistance from those now responsible for United States foreign policy and our overseas operations.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

* 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.

Caracalla left for the frontier, where for the rest of his short reign he was known for his unpredictable and arbitrary operations launched by surprise after a pretext of peace negotiations.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Additionally, the keyboard and high score cartridge were canceled, the expansion port was removed from later production runs of the system and, in lieu of new titles, the system was launched with titles intended for the 7800's debut in 1984.

JPI first launched a MS-DOS compiler named JPI Modula-2, that later became TopSpeed Modula-2, and followed up with TopSpeed C, TopSpeed C ++ and TopSpeed Pascal compilers for both the MS-DOS and OS / 2 operating systems.

The BBCi brand launched in 2001 and was conceived as a cohesive multi-platform brand name for all the BBC's digital interactive services, encompassing the corporation's digital teletext, interactive television and website services.

As a direct result of this, a brand new style across all presentation for the channel launched on 8 December 2003 at 09: 00.

Passing through the hail of arrows launched by the Persian army, protected for the most part by their armour, the Greek line finally collided with the enemy army.

The album remains as one of their most popular works and launched a boost of popularity for Barış Manço during 1980s.

Bovril's instant beef stock was launched in 1966 and its " King of Beef " range of instant flavours for stews, casseroles and gravy in 1971.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

The review ultimately identified a viable frequency for a third station, and CJFO-FM launched in 2010.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

The first KH-11 KENNAN reconnaissance satellite equipped with charge-coupled device array ( pixels ) technology for imaging was launched in December 1976.

More recent developments have seen the conversion of AVLB and truck launched bridge with launching systems that can be mounted on either tank or truck for bridges that are capable of supporting heavy main battle tanks.