At any time during a mission you can pause the game, save it, change options, and consult your goals or the mission map.

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As for Endeavour and her mission to create a radar map of the earth: with wiring inspections 90 percent complete on the orbiter NASA lovingly calls OV-105, she is scheduled to launch on January 13.

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Predator and Reaper crews use removable hard drives to load map updates and transport mission videos from one computer to another.

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But his real mission is to put Benton back on the map.

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Her best mission to date has been one where she sends you around the map gathering stuffed animals for a tea party.

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The new map is a smart byproduct of the European Space Agency (Esa) telescope's main mission which is to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB - a pervasive but faint glow of long-wavelength radiation that comes to us from the very edge of the observable Universe.

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That might not be so strange if the emblem of the club wasn't a golf flag in a map of the U.S., or if Payne didn't claim the club's mission was "to be a beacon in the world of golf, " or if it wasn't anathema to speak about the place with anything but reverence.

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