The last nighttime launching was in November 2002, two months before the ill-fated mission of the shuttle Columbia.

And on the campaign circuit, those still in the race took a few moments to reflect on just how ill-fated the mission had been.

Drake himself had died from dysentry shortly before the vessels were scuttled on this last ill-fated mission.

This rationale reminds one of the ill-fated mission of the international force sent to Beirut in 1983.

He probably returned to the Bohemian capital in 1432 prior to undertaking his ill-fated mission to Scotland.

She worried about her father, a widower only a few short months prior to the Gagarin's departure on its ill-fated last mission.

Like so much else on this ill-fated mission, the Janus Gate made the decision for him.

Or so he had claimed before his ill-fated mission.

He'd lost his future and his reputation during the ill-fated mission nineteen years ago.

Two weeks after the ill-fated mission to Planet X, the sirens went off wildly in the middle of a work period.