Khotan was considered well placed as a mission station.

于阗被认为是作为传教的基地的最好选择。

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A small plane with two sick U.S. workers arrived safely in Chile late Wednesday after leaving Antarctica in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station.

一架小型飞机从一个偏远的南极科考站出发，英勇地执行了救援任务。随后载着两名生病的美籍工作人员，于周三晚间安全抵达智利。

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Five years later, I flew on my first mission to the International Space Station.

五年后，我第一次飞往国际空间站执行任务。

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For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

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Bob Dempsey, at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, is the lead International Space Station flight director for this mission.

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(OMITTED) Commander Alan Poindexter is leadingthe Discovery's crew on a 13-day mission that includes a stop at the space station.

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Some 150 British soldiers defended the mission station Rorke's Drift against 4, 000 Zulus in 1879.

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For Williams, this was her second long-term mission aboard the Station, and her first as Expedition commander.

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On Thursday, December 3, the target launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on an eleven-day International Space Station mission is scheduled at Cape Canaveral.

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