While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

While aircraft communications provide the backbone for safe flight, the tactical systems are designed to withstand the rigors of the battle field.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

While taking a business trip, Max Klein ( Jeff Bridges ) survives a crash of a flight headed from San Francisco to Houston.

While traditional mechanical or hydraulic control systems usually fail gradually, the loss of all flight control computers could immediately render the aircraft uncontrollable.

While there, he was one of eight delegates with a background in guided weapons projects to address the Fourth International Congress of Astronautics in Zurich in August 1953, at a time when, as The New York Times reported, most scientists saw space flight as thinly disguised science fiction.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

While current and forecasted weather may be a factor in deciding which type of flight plan to file, weather conditions themselves do not affect one's filed flight plan.

While very difficult to bowl accurately, good leg spin is considered one of the most threatening types of bowling to bat against, since the flight and sharp turn make the ball's movement extremely hard to read and the turn away from the batsman ( assuming he or she is right-handed ) is more dangerous than the turn into the batsman generated by an off spinner.

* 1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland.

While historically thought of as simple, leathery structures composed of skin, research has since shown that the wing membranes of pterosaurs were actually highly complex and dynamic structures suited to an active style of flight.

While most of a Pteranodon flight would have depended on soaring, like long-winged seabirds, it probably required an occasional active, rapid burst of flapping, and studies of Pteranodon wing loading ( the strength of the wings vs. the weight of the body ) indicate that they were capable of substantial flapping flight, contrary to some earlier suggestions that they were so big they could only glide.

While at NASA Dryden Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program.

While later sources often mentioned this " flight " a success, Montgomery himself noted this as " the first and only real disappointment in the study ".

While at Purdue, Chaffee took flight training as part of the Naval ROTC program in order to prepare him for a career as a Naval Aviator, soloing on 29 March 1957 and obtained his private pilot's license on 24 May 1957.

While Nasser was in Syria, King Saud was allegedly planning on having him assassinated during his flight back to Cairo.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

While some APUs may not be startable in flight, ETOPS-compliant APUs must be flight-startable at altitudes up to the aircraft service ceiling.

While finishing at Ohio State, he took flight training at Norton Field in Columbus, in 1931 – 32.

While the gang goes off to search for the bird, the game warden, keeping his promise to confiscate the birds and who witnessed the Aldens practicing for the big flight, comes to the Alden barn and seizes the geese.

While an aircraft's V < sub > S </ sub > speed is computed by design, its V < sub > S0 </ sub > and V < sub > S1 </ sub > speeds must be demonstrated empirically by flight testing.

While Hikaru takes the new VF-1 Valkyrie on a test flight the aliens retaliate.

While computer implementations often show this motion, players using physical decks typically move the tableau at once.

While linear stereo all but disappeared from home VHS decks, it was not until the 1990s that Hi-Fi became a more common feature on VHS decks.

While Cassette's design is regarded as one of the best bi-levels among hard core riders, delamination issues were experienced with the first batch of top decks.

While their cassette decks were particularly well known, the company is also credited with numerous other audio innovations, such as self-centering record players, high-end DAT recorders, and ultra-compact slot-loading CD changers.

While computer implementations often show this motion, players using physical decks typically move the tableau at once.

While the President was closing its distance with Belvidera Captain Byron began clearing the decks and preparing for action and made ready his stern guns.

While stratus cloud decks can occasionally reach the interior valleys in July and August, they are very often confined to the coastline during this time.

While it kept combo decks in check, it also had an extremely powerful interaction with the card, allowing it to be played on the first turn.

While railway vehicles can be and are shipped on the decks or in the holds of ordinary ships, purpose-built train ferries can be quickly loaded and unloaded by roll-on / roll-off, especially as several vehicles can be loaded or unloaded at once.

While high fidelity previously required large turntables, tape decks and speakers, the changing technology of music formats have made small bookshelf systems, Bose desktop radios, and iPod based speaker systems which can also produce music of high quality and serve as music entertainment systems, making large component systems again a niche high-end market.

While strategically simple, aggro decks can quickly overwhelm unprepared opponents and eke out a last bit of damage in the late game as well.

While the card battles were noted to be a satisfying test of skill, the need to micromanage decks and the difficulty of some boss battles were faulted.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

While U. S. culture prefers breasts that are youthful and upright, some cultures venerate women with wrinkled, saggy breasts, indicating mothering and the wisdom of experience.

While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

While these tests are not required in US, an estimated 75 – 90 % of the blood supply is currently tested for Chagas, including all units collected by the American Red Cross, which accounts for 40 % of the U. S. blood supply.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

While Britain, Australia and New Zealand have traditionally employed the European usage ( below ), they have been moving to the U. S. system more recently.

While the constitution does not expressly state that these agreements are allowed, and constitutional scholars such as Laurence Tribe think they're unconstitutional, the U. S. Supreme Court has upheld their validity.

While most international law has a broader interpretation of the term treaty, the U. S. sense of the term is more restricted.

While rival Dell Computer had 55 % growth in U. S. PC sales in the first quarter of 1999, Compaq could only manage 10 %.

While no earthquake or tsunami followed the test, the opposition grew when the U. S. announced they would detonate a bomb five times more powerful than the first one.

While the description of strong and weak interactions within the Standard Model is based on gauge symmetries governed by the simple symmetry groups SU ( 3 ) and SU ( 2 ) which allow only discrete charges, the remaining component, the weak hypercharge interaction is described by an abelian symmetry U ( 1 ) which in principle allows for arbitrary charge assignments.

" While there were hostile incidents at the end of Vancouver's last season – the most serious of which involved a clash with Tlingits at Behm Canal in southeast Alaska in 1794 – these were the exceptions to Vancouver's exploration of the U. S. and Canadian Northwest coast.

While Hawala has been discouraged in some U. S. states and other countries, it is legal in all US and world jurisdictions.

While organized to promote common economic, social, and cultural goals, ASEAN acquired a security dimension after Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in 1979 ; this aspect of ASEAN expanded with the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1994, which comprises 22 countries, including the U. S. Indonesia's continued domestic troubles have distracted it from ASEAN matters and consequently lessened its influence within the organization.

While British colonialism laid the foundation for English over much of the world, International English is a product of an emerging world culture, very much attributable to the influence of the United States as well, but conceptually based on a far greater degree of cross-talk and linguistic transculturation, which tends to mitigate both U. S. influence and British colonial influence.

While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

While Jamiroquai was growing in popularity in the UK, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, they remained relatively unknown to U. S and other international audiences.

While the U. S. action was still pending, the record industry commenced proceedings against Sharman on its home turf.

While the U. S. Senate did not add any reservation to the treaty, it did pass a measure " interpreting " the treaty which included the statement that the treaty must not infringe upon America's right of self defense and that the United States was not obliged to enforce the treaty by taking action against those who violated it.

While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet that included a man who would become one of the first Populist ( People's Party ) Senators in the U. S., James Kyle.

While they had both lived in the United States since they were four and five, respectively, neither had officially obtained U. S. citizenship.

While studying law under the mentorship of Oliver Ellsworth, the future U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, Webster held a full-time job teaching in Hartford — a schedule he found grueling, and ultimately impossible to sustain .< p.