The specific variety, called the Criolla or " Mission grape ", was first planted at Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1779 ; in 1783, the first wine produced in Alta California emerged from the mission's winery.

Some special forces may use customized satchel charges designed to destroy their specific mission's target.

The mission's call-sign was composed by the band Blur, and the ' test card ' ( Calibration Target Plate ) intended for calibrating Beagle 2s cameras and spectrometers after landing was painted by Damien Hirst.

One of the mission's main goals is to map the Martian landscape with its high-resolution cameras in order to choose landing sites for future surface missions.

In 2004 a 12 acre ( 49, 000 m² ) tract at the northeastern corner of the mission's property, which had been the site of a convent maintained by the Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, a Franciscan order of nuns, was sold to residential developers for US $ 19 million, despite steadfast opposition from local conservation activists.

Launched on 24 October 1998, the Deep Space mission carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 Braille, which was selected as the mission's science target.

The mission's total cost was estimated at approximately US $ 1. 4 billion.

It was also a former Roman town ; many of the Gregorian mission's efforts were centred in such locations.

While many of the World Bank mission's recommendations were much argued both locally and internationally this proposal was widely accepted as it was clear that both political and economic advancement depended on greatly improved land, sea and air transport.

It was established on December 8, 1787 ( the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, hence the mission's name ) by the Franciscan order.

In November 2008, the Bolivian U. N. contingent of peacekeeping troops in Congo DR was relocated to safety, as at least one other regional state was also reviewing its own mission's security.

Each year, the mission's farmland produced up to 2000 bushels of corn and 100 bushels of bean ; cotton was also grown.

The mission's original launch date of 29 October 1983 was scrubbed due to concerns with the exhaust nozzle on the right solid rocket booster ( SRB ).

While the engine repairs were underway, a severe storm caused contamination of the mission's primary cargo, the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, while it was in the Payload Change-out Room on the Rotating Service Structure at the launch pad.

In 2003, MAP was renamed WMAP in honor of cosmologist David Todd Wilkinson ( 1935 – 2002 ), who had been a member of the mission's science team.

The WMAP mission's determination of the age of the universe to better than 1 % precision was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

The new Captain of the Sea Venture was mission's Vice-Admiral, Christopher Newport.

In the first test flight, it was discovered that the ship Burton had sent for help had been severely damaged by the Ur-Quan and was orbiting unpowered in the outer solar system: the Alliance had never known of the mission's discoveries.

The mission's primary goal was to test the new, maneuverable Gemini spacecraft.

The Giotto mission's spaceprobe was successfully launched on the tenth Ariane 1 ( flight V14 ) on 2 July 1985.

The mission's scientific objective was to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars.

In an EVA to reinforce a torn solar panel during STS-120, a pair of pliers was lost and during STS-126, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a briefcase-sized tool bag in one of the mission's EVAs.

When asked about how her charitable mission's development in 2004, Amritanandamayi said, " As for the activities, there was no planning.

( A chargé d ' affaires ad interim also heads the mission during the interim between the end of one chief of mission's term and the beginning of another ).

During the American Civil War, many of the mission's buildings were burned down in warfare between pro-Confederate and pro-Union forces.

Serra's goal was to put some distance between the mission's neophytes and the Presidio of Monterey.

The 9th century, especially the latter half, has very few major survivals made in England, but was a period when Insular and Anglo-Saxon influence on Carolingian manuscripts was at its height, from scriptoria such as those at the Anglo-Saxon mission's foundation at Echternach Abbey ( though the important Echternach Gospels were created in Northumbria ), and the major monastery at Tours, where Alcuin of York was followed by another Anglo-Saxon abbot, between them covering the period from 796 to 834.

The book centers around chronicling the lives of the future Mars mission astronauts, NASA and contractor personnel all involved helping in making the mission become a reality, and the shifts within NASA's astronaut and management hierarchy throughout the mission's preparations, including female geologist Natalie York's quest to become an astronaut, and her stormy relationships between fellow astronaut Ben Priest and with NERVA engineer Mike Conlig.

Launch would not occur for another two hours, and during the time Gagarin chatted with the mission's main CapCom, as well as Chief Designer Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, and a few others.

As the rules of the Franciscan Order forbade friars to live alone, two missionaries were assigned to each settlement, sequestered in the mission's convento.

The mission's two objectives are to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars.

One of the mission's two primary objectives was to search for a " habitable zone " in the Martian regolith where microbial life could exist, the other main goal being to study the geological history of water on Mars.

During the mission, Grunsfeld performed three of the mission's five back-to-back spacewalks, which installed two new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope: The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, and the Wide Field Camera 3.

During the mission's second spacewalk on March 16, spacewalking astronauts attached the two arms to the robot's main body and further prepared the machine for its handyman job on the station.

The mission's objective was the recovery of 61 American prisoners of war thought to be held at the camp, situated in an area where 12, 000 North Vietnamese troops were stationed within.

Right at the start of the film, we witness how Charlie has evidently been deemed expendable and accordingly gets set up to be caught or killed during a joint mission in East Germany — this despite Muffin essentially having been responsible for the mission's success.

The mission's report, The Economic Development of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, published in 1964, set out the framework upon which much of later economic policy, up to and beyond independence, proceeded.

Harper accepted the findings, which argued for an indefinite extension of the mission beyond February 2009, but also pointed to logistical and equipment shortfalls, communications challenges with telling the mission's story to Canadians, and a coming manpower strength shortage.

The mission also performed a " fire in the hole " test ( as depicted in the mission's insignia ) in which the ascent stage engine would be fired while still attached to the descent stage.

Closing in on a planet ( called ' Quinta ') which exhibits signs of harboring intelligent life, the crew of the Hermes attempts to establish contact with the denizens of the planet, who, contrary to the expectations of the mission's crewmen, are strangely unwilling to communicate.

The tiny Virginia survived a massive three day storm en route which was thought to have been a hurricane and which wrecked the mission's large new flagship Sea Venture on Bermuda.

The mission's primary payload was a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite ( TDRS-D ), which became TDRS-4 after deployment, and its attached Inertial Upper Stage ( IUS ).

Jaime's mission's frequently involved undercover work in which she takes on a secret identity, such as a nun, a police officer, a college student, an air-steward, a singer, and a professional wrestler.

Charles Hurlburt, president of the Pennsylvania Bible Institute, the organisation which provided most of the mission's workers in its very early years.

While missions in Seawolf are pre-scripted, there are a number of initial setups which provides some variation in a mission's precise starting conditions.

So that members of both the state and free church were represented in the mission's management, the office of co-director ( Kondirektor ) was created, which existed until 1972

A final report is then prepared which incorporates the mission's recommendations.

The mission's hospital, Chinyingi Mission Hospital, serves the local community with a 52-bed hospital and several health outreach programs, providing everything from first aid to services for people with HIV / AIDS AIDS, which affects some 25 % of Zambia's population.