The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent back spectacular images of Jupiter and Saturn and then soared out of the Solar System on a one-way mission to the stars.

1977年发射的“旅行者一号”太空探测器发回了木星和土星的壮观图像，然后飞出太阳系，执行前往恒星的单程任务。

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"The sailors during the first deployment had a real morale problem," Yung said, adding that following their mission, they were taken on a beach vacation "to get morale back up.

Yung说，第一次远航时船员们的士气受到影响，完成任务回来后他们被带到海滩度假，以恢复他们的士气。

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The journey back to Earth, which began on Christmas Day, was uneventful, though hardly calm; the astronauts themselves had given their mission only a 50-50 chance of succeeding.

回到地球时正是圣诞节的开始，返程尽管谈不上平静，但也没有发生大事，航天员们自己对于这次飞行任务的打分是50比50。

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Charles de Gaulle in 1941, but snuck back into occupied France on a spying mission in 1944, where he was arrested by the Gestapo and shipped off to the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.

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Way back in November of 1985, on just its second mission, Atlantis experienced a blow-back of hot gases past the primary O-rings in one of its solid rocket boosters, resulting in serious erosion of said O-ring.

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At the turn of the last century, the Democrats' favorite Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, went on a mission to put business back in its place.

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