So our first mission was to break the momentum of the deepest and most vicious recession since the Great Depression.
However, even as the first mission is prepared for launch, politicians are still arguing over how the project should be funded.
Mr. SWETMAN: Our first mission was to get cash back in circulation.
In June 2006, on his first mission in Iraq, Castner died from wounds he suffered when his Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb.
"Several space missions are planned for 2013, including India's first mission to Mars and the launch of our first navigational satellite, " he told lawmakers.
That would come when NASA redesigned its spacesuit for the first mission of the Orion capsule scheduled to fly to the space station in 2014.
One section, Duels of Fate, is locked at the very beginning, but quickly unlocks after players complete the first mission in the Jedi Destiny section.
At 25, on our first mission with no combat experience, I thought that was a pretty large amount of responsibility that I did not take lightly.
More importantly, the U is reminded that its first mission is to educate a broad cross section of youth, and football is down the priority ladder.
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As the first mission since the Columbia accident in 2003, Nasa had a lot to prove, to the nation, to its political masters and to itself.
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Their first mission, of course, was crowd control and safety.
Correspondents say that the reluctance of the allies to offer resources for Afghanistan has dogged the credibility of Nato's first mission outside Europe or America in its 55-year history.
Notable highlights in the ship's career have included the first construction mission to the ISS by a US orbiter, and the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Dr Patrick's first mission was as the robotic arm operator on STS-116 - a mission of the Discovery shuttle in 2006 to continue the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).
And his matter-of-fact, detailed explanation shows just how remarkable, and risky, the first moon mission really was.
Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Orion ship.
Nasa has also identified 2014 as a possible launch date for the first human mission to Mars in a 1997 study.
In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.
It was the first such mission since the failure of the Mars 96 probe, which also failed to reach Mars after a launch failure.
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Worms have survived their first space mission - living in liquid.
The oldest orbiter in the fleet, it had experienced engineering problems before during a long career that begin with the first shuttle mission more than 20 years ago.
Green volunteered for the group's first domestic mission, in Tuscaloosa.
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Our second goal is to develop and test a new space craft, the crew exploration vehicle, by 2008, and to conduct the first manned mission no later than 2014.
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The prospect of having to condone the involvement of German soldiers in what would be their first offensive mission since the second world war might now, some believe, prove the last straw.
The Chinese search and rescue team, the first such mission ever accepted by Japan from China, arrived in Tokyo on Sunday and will join similar groups from dozens of countries in a search for survivors in the worst affected areas.
"The Apollo 17 rock was not lost or misplaced ... because between the first landing mission on Apollo 11 and the last on Apollo 17, something happened in Alaska, " assistant U.S. attorney James Barkeley told collectSpace.com in a telephone interview.
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Considered the workhorse of MSL, SAM is one of the main reasons the mission came about in the first place, mission planners say.
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