Such labors as the forty-eight hours of preparation that the mission entailed are wearisome enough to get through, let alone describe for a bored boyfriend.
For the young, overly pretty crew of white and Asian astronauts, the mission initially entails watching monitors, twiddling dials and counting miles.
When Congress authorized this war, we were committing America to a mission that entails the greatest sacrifice a country can make, one that falls disproportionately on those Americans who love their country so much that they volunteer to risk their lives to accomplish that mission.
One year later, there's still some confusion about what Canada's ISIS mission actually entails.
It's a complicated mission that entails a massive army of trickers and introduces that funny fireplug, Adrian Martinez, as Farhad, Nicky's resident computer genius and possibly his oldest friend.
A good day's work for mission control entails knowing that we got our tasks done in good order, and that we then went for a run, read something entertaining, cooked and shared a good meal, made a dent in our personal research, and wrote the folks back home.
When told that such a mission would entail U.S. warplanes bombing Libyan antiaircraft positions and "continuous patrols," about a quarter of those initially advocating U.S. participation turn into opponents.
It might have gone about its business, which is not plotting armed coups, but ministering to the ailing, the aged and the bereft, a mission that entailed serving 80,001 meals, helping the sick 7,104 times, making 1,937 visits to shut-ins and counseling troubled Moscovites 9,918 times last year alone.
Science Editor David Shukman explains what Rosetta's mission will entail and what scientists hope it will discover.
He refuses to be specific about what this mission might entail, but asks us to look at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that was sent to the Moon to retrieve information helpful to future astronaut ventures.
