landing date

She revised the Space Brothers' expected landing date several times, before finally settling on 2001.

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Without Celera's challenge, the consortium would have had little reason to alter its academic flight path and produce the useful part of the genome three years ahead of the 2003 landing date.

Thus, for example, although Spirit and Opportunity were sent to operate simultaneously on Mars, each counted its landing date as "Sol 1", putting their calendars approximately 21 sols out of synch.

After losing the wager, Norman changed the expected landing date to 2001; she taught that the close of the 20th century coincided with the beginning of a new cycle which would bring great benefits to humanity.

However, examining Endymions own logs at the Public Record Office, James Fisher (of the 1955 Rockall landing) discovered that the first landing date was actually Sunday 8 September 1811.

The team approved a revised flight plan that allows Discovery to delay hatch closure and undocking slightly, to allow the samples to be kept inside the station's freezer longer, while still protecting the landing date of 28 March.

The landing date was outside a normal landing window as the craft was being flight-rated over the standard two-and-a-half months and the Soviets were planning to launch Soyuz 35 during the next launch window in April.

Now, in the centennial year itself, with the landing date looming ahead, they verified their figures daily, and always they received the same answer: "We're on schedule to land at three in the afternoon on the Fourth of July."