His crew includes first-time mission specialist Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock), a medical engineer.
For the first time, the mission and its participants became the subject of serious scholarship, and many of the mission participants were among the first Americans invited to visit China in twenty years.
For the first time, a mission was also able to measure the mass and density of a cometary nucleus.
Ms Shotwell pointed out that once airborne, the rocket can run on just seven of its engines, "just not at lift-off .This is not the first time the mission has been postponed.
Many of the Kabul government's outside backers, including the Obama administration, have urged Mr. Karzai to do much the same, but it was the first time the United Nations mission had publicly done so.
A Seattle man dubbed "Bike Batman" after he started confronting thieves and returning stolen bicycles to their owners has spoken out publicly for the first time about his mission to "reunite people with their bikes".
It's historic not just because it's an awesome Mars lander that will teach us about the formation of our rocky neighbor and Earth itself, but because this is the first time an interplanetary mission has taken off from the west coast of the country.
For the first time the Alsos Mission was able to categorically report that the Germans did not have nuclear weapons, and would not have them for some time.
The mission is to last 16 days, only the second time a mission will have gone on that long.
It marked the first time that planetary missions have been ranked so comprehensively.
In 1999, Italian AV-8Bs were used for the first time in combat missions when they were deployed aboard Giuseppe Garibaldi, which was participating in Operation Allied Force in Kosovo.
