Sentence examples for mission number from inspiring English sources

Sure enough, on mission number 26 Alfie's bomber is downed.

The take-off of the Enola Gay and the other planes, which comprised "special bombing mission number 13", was a media event.

Payroll workers and aeronautical engineers alike remembered the seven Columbia crew members: how they dragged colleagues to their table at the Christmas party just six weeks ago to plant tattoos with the shuttle's mission number on their foreheads.

Not only was he lucky but on many occasions his pilot was Paul Tibbets, an outstandingly skilful airman who was to command the Enola Gay.Mission 13In 1944 Paul Tibbets was told about the Manhattan Project and ordered to pick a crew for what was called special bombing mission number 13.

It shows a red figure-8 looping around the Earth and Moon representing the mission number as well as the circumlunar nature of the mission.

On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke.

Each space shuttle mission is there, in chronological order (note: the mission numbering does not follow, for various reasons).

NASA received 4,000 applications for press credentials for this mission, numbers not seen since the days of Apollo or the beginnings of the space shuttle programs.

"In the last 15 years, the number of missions, number of crises have drastically multiplied," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general.

The Likud leader has described preventing Iran becoming nuclear-armed as his "first mission" and number one priority.

He added that NASA estimated that in this shuttle mission, the number of foam strikes had been reduced by about 80percentt from what would have been expected without the tank modifications.