However, even as the first mission is prepared for launch, politicians are still arguing over how the project should be funded.
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.
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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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.
Agency officials say they are now aiming for September 2014 for the first crewed mission of the Orion ship.
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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"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.
And his matter-of-fact, detailed explanation shows just how remarkable, and risky, the first moon mission really was.
Nasa has also identified 2014 as a possible launch date for the first human mission to Mars in a 1997 study.
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.
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 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.
This marks the first successful cargo mission to the space station by a private company.
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In fact, it was at the dawn of the JFK era 51 years ago when the U.S. Navy sent sent the first and only mission to the Challenger Deep when a submersible called the Trieste spent 20 minutes on the ocean bottom.
For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
From there, the capsule will be processed and most of its cargo delivered to NASA. This marks the first successful cargo mission to and from the International Space Station by a commercial spaceflight company.
The first phase of the solar mission stipulated that solar farm operators using silicon wafers should only buy made-in-India versions of this equipment but allowed them to import other forms of technology, including thin-film cells.
Near is the first Nasa planetary mission controlled by a non-Nasa space centre .
This marks the first commercial cargo mission to the Station.
It is the first US sample-return mission since the last Moon landing in 1972.
The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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And, in Kenton, Ohio, the first American killed in the Bosnian peacekeeping mission was buried Tuesday.
In short, nothing in the first section of the commission's mission description looks to the very problem David Kay said should be examined.
In addition to fundraising, the foundation also plans to earn money for the trip by selling media rights and by selling data from the trip to NASA. Tito also announced at the conference he will be personally funding the first 2 years of the 5 year mission to get the trip launched.
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The first developmental flight, or mission, is targeted for the end of 2017.
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