The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

He won the Triple crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series ( the 1966 and 1970 Baltimore Orioles ), and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement ( he is currently ninth ).

The MW added a ninth team in 2005: TCU, also a former WAC and SWC member, which joined after four seasons in Conference USA.

On the ninth of December, longstanding band member Mary Hansen was killed when hit by a truck while riding her bicycle.

Research Infosource ranked the University Canada's ninth most research intensive school for 2011, with 2010 sponsored research income of $ 273. 278 million, averaging $ 213, 300 per faculty member.

1980 marked the return of LaKind to the lineup as a full member and the Doobies released their ninth studio album, One Step Closer.

Against the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth inning, Harris ( then a member of the Montreal Expos ) retired Reggie Sanders pitching right-handed, then switched to his left hand for the next two hitters, Hal Morris and Ed Taubensee, who both batted left-handed.

Browder's former Farscape co-star Claudia Black appeared on SG-1 in the eighth season episode entitled " Prometheus Unbound " and again during the first episodes of the ninth season before becoming a regular cast member on the series at the beginning of its tenth season in 2006.

On May 12, 2011, the SCIAC announced that Chapman University would become the ninth member, beginning with the 2011-12 academic year.

* 1962 The PAC accepted the University of Ypsilanti ( Eastern Michigan ) as its ninth member.

81 is the ninth member of the Mian-Chowla sequence.

Marian Nelson McLawhorn is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's ninth House district since 1999, including constituents in Pitt County.

The ninth elected member is Mohammad Hussain Fahimee, who is Hazara from the Hizb-i Wahdat-i Islami Mardom-i Afghanistan party.

the titles are held by his posthumous son, the ninth Earl, who succeeded on his birth in April 1944 ( two months after his father's death ); Lord Chichester has served as board member in several music institutions.

The sixth Baron's great-grandson, the ninth Baron, was an active member of the House of Lords and served as a Delegate to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union.

The ninth member ex officio is the Secretary of State.

Neil Albert Salonen, a member of the Unification Church, was the Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees when he was chosen to serve as ninth University president in 1999.

Meanwhile, Nuxhall was the biggest member of the ninth grade class in nearby Hamilton, Ohio at and — a left-hander with a hard fastball, but not much control.

He was the ninth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1842.

Dynasty cancellation had left its ninth season finale unresolved and characters in mortal peril ; original cast member John Forsythe later noted, " The way we were cut off was a disgrace.

Being an important member of the Serizawa faction, he was later forced by Yamanami Keisuke and Hijikata Toshizō to commit seppuku ( suicide ) around October 19 ( by the lunar calendar, the 10th day of the ninth month ), 1863.

He served as the ninth President of Brigham Young University and is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

One of the 39 member institutions of the United Negro College Fund, and a historically Black, Baptist-related institution which is ranked second in Florida and ninth in the United States for graduating African-American teachers.

Being a descendant of Nurhaci's ninth son Babutai, Keying was a member of the imperial house of Aisin-Gioro and belonged to the Manchu Plain Blue Banner in the Eight Banners.

Augusta State joined the conference in 1991 and UNC Pembroke became the ninth member on July 1, 1992.

McQueen also learned the martial art Tang Soo Do from ninth degree black belt Pat E. Johnson.

After the cessation of official relations with the Tang Dynasty in the ninth century, Japanese art and architecture gradually became less influenced by China.

Shanxi had been a traditional base of power since the fading days of the Tang Dynasty in the late ninth century and early tenth century.

was a ninth century Japanese artist, who was a proponent of the artistic styles of the Tang dynasty of China.

Emperor Ruizong of Tang ( 唐睿宗 ) ( 22 June 662 – 13 July 716 ), personal name Lǐ Dàn ( 李旦 ), known at times during his life as Li Xulun ( 李旭輪 ), Li Lun ( 李輪 ), Wu Lun ( 武輪 ), and Wu Dan ( 武旦 ), was the fifth and ninth emperor of Tang Dynasty.

The ninth member, Tang escaped re-arrest as she was in the United Kingdom.

Guru Tegh Bahadur, the son of Guru Har Gobind and the ninth Guru, as a child met Mian Mir who blessed him.

The ninth victim escaped and soon came back to the Norse camp with a force.

In the ninth month of 936, he received a summons to appear at court to answer charges filed by Minamoto Mamoru, but was able to convince the Office of Imperial Police and the Council of State that there were mitigating circumstances for his actions, and escaped punishment.

In the bottom of the ninth, with Rollie Fingers on the mound, Jimmy Wynn hit a solo homer that just escaped the reach of Joe Rudi and North in left center.

Another protected renner in the Belgian team was Edward Vissers, but when Vissers escaped in the ninth stage, Maes started to chase his own team mate, and French cyclist René Vietto, leading the general classification, did not have to do much work to defend his lead.

But his 1966 club escaped the basement for the first time in the Mets ' five-year history when it finished ninth in the ten-team National League, posting a record of 66 wins and 95 losses, a 16-game improvement over the previous season.

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

She and her crab were slain by Heracles as the second of his Twelve Labors-he cut off her heads and burnt the neck so that she could not regenerate, and crushed her ninth head under a rock, ( the crab being accidentally crushed underneath Heracles ' heel ).

On the ninth night, she has a servant smear honey on Sigmund's face and when the she-wolf arrives, she starts licking the honey off and sticks her tongue into Sigmund's mouth, whereupon Sigmund bites her tongue off, killing her.

This is fulfilling of a dream Elaine spoke of in which she held the ninth diamond, but it was too slippery to hold and fell into a body of water.

Her ninth album, Gran City Pop ( 2009 ) had a fresh and original concept, and focused in vision, to reflect Paulina's life and musical experiences she had while traveling the world.

In July 2006, she received her ninth Emmy nomination for her performance in the television film A Little Thing Called Murder.

In particular, Rowling had trouble with the ninth chapter, " The Dark Mark ", which she rewrote 13 times.

It was his fourth film directed by Kramer, and the ninth with Hepburn, who was so shaken she refused to watch it after it was completed.

Due to her working, Cansino never graduated from high school ; she completed ninth grade at Hamilton High in Los Angeles.

an eight year girl is called Kubjika, on the ninth year she is Kaalasandarbha, on reaching tenth year she is Aparajita, on eleventh she is Rudrani, on twelfth year she is named Bhairavi, on thirteenth she is Mahalakshmi, on fourteenth she is Pithanayika, on fifteenth she is Kshetragya, and on sixteenth years of her age she is Ambika.

In between recording those two albums, she launched her own independent record label Planet 9 and participated in the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars ; placing 2nd in the competition.

Harrison announced she would participate in Dancing with the Stars ninth season with Dmitry Chaplin.

After finishing a distant ninth in 2007's first round of voting ( 487, 857 votes, totaling 1. 33 % of the popular vote ), for the first time since 1981 she endorsed the Socialist Party candidate ( Ségolène Royal ) for the second round.

Basil's Academy in Garrison, New York, where she remained from the third grade to the ninth.

William was given up for adoption during the end of the ninth season after Scully felt she could no longer provide the safety that William needed.

The ninth of ten children born to her parents, she was known as Sopherl within the family.

In the 2006 election she was re-elected to a ninth term, defeating Republican challenger Joseph Vollano with 76 % of the vote.