Those who push for more humanitarian missions can increase support for such missions by raising public outcry for action.
Nasa wants to gather more medical and psychological data on the effects of long periods spent in space as it prepares for such missions.
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SpaceX is contracted for 12 total such missions, two more of which are scheduled for the year 2013.
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These small planes, which can be controlled by a computer inside the vehicle or remotely by a pilot, are increasingly being used by the military to perform missions that may be considered too dangerous for humans, such as wartime reconnaissance or combat missions.
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Some of the strangest items on the exhibitors' stands are church vestments designed for missions to war zones such as Afghanistan.
Allied aircrew who flew on such missions believed they fought for a just cause.
This will allow people to experience artificial gravity in space, which may be important for long-term missions to places such as Mars.
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Though they are relied upon for reconnaissance and surveillance missions, UAVs can be used in a wide variety of applications such as securing pipelines for the oil and gas industry, road patrol or even face recognition.
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For example, organizations such as AERObridge and others ensured that companies and entrepreneurs wanting to offer aircraft for relief missions were effectively coordinated with those offering supplies for delivery and the people in need on the ground.
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The first in line would likely be the Special Operations forces who appreciate the immense benefits of such a revolutionary technology for its demanding unconventional warfare missions.
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Such missions have revived a fundamental question for France: Whether it is possible for the former colonial power to move beyond protector to an assortment of prickly, fragile states.
And he has also promised to withdraw all U.S. soldiers from Iraq by 2010, although he has said he would retain a "residual force" to perform missions such as counterterrorism and force protection for U.S. facilities like the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest U.S. diplomatic facility in the world.
The rewards for the missions include currency or items you can wear, such as a tan neckerchief, a Mad Hatter-style hat, items that would send a designer packing in Project Runway.
That meant a normal willingness to defend its own interests, for example in the European Union, and also a readiness to send troops on such foreign missions as the war in Kosovo.
It would have been understandable, even commendable, to have cited such qualities in a call for legislators to come together as our troops do to accomplish the difficult missions at hand.
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The miniature parasols idea, for example, envisages at least 16 trillion such parasols, the latter requiring an estimated 20 million separate space missions to get them up into orbit.
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During confirmation hearings, Daley vowed to eliminate 100 of the department's 256 political jobs by the end of 1997 and promised to suspend trade missions for a month, to allow a review of how business executives are selected to accompany government officials on such missions.
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