Space Shuttle Endeavour was staged for a possible rescue mission in case Space Shuttle Atlantis gets into trouble while the crew is fixing the Hubble Telescope.
Because Atlantis will not be able to reach the space station if it gets into trouble, or is damaged, on its Hubble flight, the Endeavour orbiter will be made ready on the pad for a rescue mission in case it is needed.
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Then, there is the LIFE biomodule, which we piggybacked in the Grunt mission simply to get it into interplanetary space for as long as possible, 34 months in the case of this mission.
And I just kissed her gently on the forehead and had to leave so we could get back into our area in case another mission came in.
That's a job for the next human-carrying spacecraft to come along from the US. And I think in the case of this mission of Discovery, everyone was comfortable with where the risk numbers fell and they were ready to go.
The team's mission was to assess security concerns in case an evacuation of the embassy were required.
"What faith does in this case is fuel a sense of mission and direction, " Bock says.
Whatever the outcome of the Discovery competition - and there will be many bids from other mission hopefuls - Dr Lorenz believes the scientific case for going to Titan is compelling, and he envisages the orangey moon becoming a popular destination in the decades ahead.
When I talked to Agassi last Monday, he was his usual ebullient self, infusing the business case for Better Place with his mission of making electric cars as attractive to own as petroleum-powered models by eliminating the high cost and limited range of most current electric vehicles.
In this case, there is an aspect of the mission to ensure not only the quality and value of current science but the nurturing of new ideas and a new cadre of investigators that will be critical to the future.
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Nadav remembers the case of an American couple visiting Kruger on a mission to see a leopard for the first time in their lives.
In this case, what needs to be optimized is the overall mission and core values of the institution.
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In one case study, the report found that in one zip code in the Mission, 52% of Airbnb guests visited the Mission, while just 17% of hotel guests visited the same area.
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In the first case, simply by being up and running, the company is fulfilling its mission.
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The coroner, Professor Paul Marks called the inquest an "extremely sad case" and praised the courage of the soldiers who took part in the mission.
Every case officer in every posting around the globe has a deeply ingrained sense of mission, and that mission is spelled out in the form of requirements.
Rosen makes the case that for-profit schools are in prime position to deliver on this mission as well as to innovate in the fields of online learning, for example, but here his absolute statements miss the mark.
Mr. Hague said that more than a week after he was informed of the case and instructed officials to seek a probe, on Feb. 15, the deputy head of mission of the British Embassy in Beijing met officials from the consular department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey the message.
Alireza Miryousefi, first secretary at Iran's mission to the United Nations, said his office didn't have information about Mr. Abu Ghaith's case.
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