Sentence examples for mission assumed from inspiring English sources

The mission assumed the role of the island elders.

The rovers' mission assumed more significance on Thursday, when Bush administration officials said that this coming week the president would propose manned flights to Mars.

After the problems with Hubble's mirror were discovered, the first servicing mission assumed greater importance, as the astronauts would need to do extensive work to install corrective optics.

The researchers on the MARSIS mission assumed the data was probably a glitch in the spacecraft's system because these small, bright echoes weren't seen in every pass over the same area of the south pole.

Once Avery's mission assumes a Freudian dimension, the allegory loses its moral force and changes from a meditation on justice, power and inequality into a gory melodrama.

4. (C) Mission assumes the USG would welcome extending beyond 2010 the close and constructive relationship we have had with Heinonen, and we have queried Heinonen as to his availability.

The resulting dose rates for a 2.5-year mission, assuming six months on the surface of Mars, were slightly over one sievert.

If Ariane 6 2 and higher lift performance are available for launch (the baseline mission assumes a launch on a Soyuz Fregat), we expect to have greater spacecraft mobility and possibly added payloads.

Dr Zeitlin and his team used this measurement as a guide to work out what an astronaut could expect on a Mars mission, assuming he or she had a similarly shielded spacecraft, travelled at a time when the Sun's activity was broadly the same and completed the journey in just 180 days - Nasa's "design reference" transit time for a manned mission to Mars.

This mission, assuming it was ever intended to alter behavior, has fallen by the wayside.

In fact, their vulnerabilities are so well-known to the bad guys they would probably prefer a scan over a pat-down on their way to their terrorist mission, assuming they can't secure Pre-Check clearances.