One of the mission's main goals is to map the Martian landscape with its high-resolution cameras in order to choose landing sites for future surface missions.

The plots allowed them to reduce or eliminate planetary encounters taking place over the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays, and to plan the completion of the mission's primary goals before the end of the fiscal year 1981.

It was also a former Roman town ; many of the Gregorian mission's efforts were centred in such locations.

While many of the World Bank mission's recommendations were much argued both locally and internationally this proposal was widely accepted as it was clear that both political and economic advancement depended on greatly improved land, sea and air transport.

As the rules of the Franciscan Order forbade friars to live alone, two missionaries were assigned to each settlement, sequestered in the mission's convento.

The circumference of the mission's holdings were said to have been about 125 miles.

The nine buildings as well as many small structures and the original water system were fully restored with the mission's dedication occurring on December 7, 1941, the same day the United States entered World War II.

Despite the truncated flight, more than 90 percent of the mission's objectives were achieved.

While the engine repairs were underway, a severe storm caused contamination of the mission's primary cargo, the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, while it was in the Payload Change-out Room on the Rotating Service Structure at the launch pad.

This mission's results papers were first and second in the " Super Hot Papers in Science Since 2003 " list.

The Soyuz 18 crew were the back-up crew for the failed Soyuz 18a mission, carried out that mission's objectives, and continued the work of the previous Soyuz 17 crew.

The mission's objectives were mainly military in scope, but included other scientific work.

During the American Civil War, many of the mission's buildings were burned down in warfare between pro-Confederate and pro-Union forces.

The mission's crew members were cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich.

The mission's stated objectives were to " check and improve scientific and technical methods and means of studying geological features of the Earth's surface in the interests of the national economies of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic.

The mission's objective was the recovery of 61 American prisoners of war thought to be held at the camp, situated in an area where 12, 000 North Vietnamese troops were stationed within.

The last Corona mission ( the 145th ), was launched May 25, 1972, and this mission's last images were taken May 31, 1972.

By the end of 2001 all of the mission's instruments were selected.

All the mission's mid-deck experiments were deemed to have been performed successfully.

Most of the mission's delays were caused by external tank issues on STS-133 Discovery.

The bathyscaphe carried no scientific equipment and no experiments were conducted ; the mission's purpose was merely to prove that the depth could be reached.

The mission's primary aims were to bring the spice trade under Portuguese control, to construct forts along the east African and Indian coasts, to further Portuguese spice trade through alliances with local chieftains, besides constructing trading posts.

So that members of both the state and free church were represented in the mission's management, the office of co-director ( Kondirektor ) was created, which existed until 1972

The 9th century, especially the latter half, has very few major survivals made in England, but was a period when Insular and Anglo-Saxon influence on Carolingian manuscripts was at its height, from scriptoria such as those at the Anglo-Saxon mission's foundation at Echternach Abbey ( though the important Echternach Gospels were created in Northumbria ), and the major monastery at Tours, where Alcuin of York was followed by another Anglo-Saxon abbot, between them covering the period from 796 to 834.

Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations reported that the headquarters of the mission in Port-au-Prince had collapsed and that the mission's chief, Hédi Annabi of Tunisia, his deputy Luiz Carlos da Costa of Brazil, and the acting police commissioner, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Doug Coates of Canada, were confirmed dead.

" In this official transaction, the mission's communal properties were privatized, the direction of civil life became a purely secular affair, and the direction of church life was transferred from the missionary religious orders to the Catholic diocesan church.

Early in the mission's planning there was suggestion of combining efforts with the Russian space agency and including Zond probes to study the Plutonian atmosphere.

One of the mission's two primary objectives was to search for a " habitable zone " in the Martian regolith where microbial life could exist, the other main goal being to study the geological history of water on Mars.

The mission's main objectives would have been to map the planet's surface and examine the double system's geology and geomorphology, as well as determining the composition of Pluto's atmosphere.

* August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.

The mission's scientific objective was to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars.

The book tells the story in flashbacks during the actual Mars mission of the chronicalized history until the mission's beginning.

The book centers around chronicling the lives of the future Mars mission astronauts, NASA and contractor personnel all involved helping in making the mission become a reality, and the shifts within NASA's astronaut and management hierarchy throughout the mission's preparations, including female geologist Natalie York's quest to become an astronaut, and her stormy relationships between fellow astronaut Ben Priest and with NERVA engineer Mike Conlig.

( A chargé d ' affaires ad interim also heads the mission during the interim between the end of one chief of mission's term and the beginning of another ).

Launch would not occur for another two hours, and during the time Gagarin chatted with the mission's main CapCom, as well as Chief Designer Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, and a few others.

In an EVA to reinforce a torn solar panel during STS-120, a pair of pliers was lost and during STS-126, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a briefcase-sized tool bag in one of the mission's EVAs.

On Apollo 17, Cernan became " the last man on the Moon " since he was the last to re-enter the lunar module Challenger during the mission's third and final extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ).

JSOC was also formed, directly based on Beckwith's recommendations during Senate investigations into the mission's failure.

The mission's final payload element was a High Precision Tracking Experiment ( HPTE ) for the Strategic Defense Initiative ( nicknamed " Star Wars "); the HPTE failed to deploy properly during its first try on the mission's 37th orbit, because the orbiter was not at the correct attitude.

Right at the start of the film, we witness how Charlie has evidently been deemed expendable and accordingly gets set up to be caught or killed during a joint mission in East Germany — this despite Muffin essentially having been responsible for the mission's success.

The film's art direction focused on historical accuracy and verisimilitude ; for instance, the mission's chapel facade is not topped with the iconic " hump ", an architectural detail added during a restoration years after the battle.