The magnetic tape spooled in Galileo's tape recorder became a thread on which the mission's destiny hung.
Yet the 1992 law authorising the SDF to deploy abroad laid down tight restrictions on which sorts of missions it could join, to avoid violating the pacifist restraints in Japan's constitution.
Ultimately, aside from several remarkable missions on which astronauts repaired and upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope, the shuttles were mostly employed for building the International Space Station.
The astronauts, commanded by Scott D. Altman, are trying to get home from what has now been a 12-day mission, on which they overhauled the Hubble Space Telescope one last time.
But this underresourced mission, on which NATO's future hinges, needs switch-hitters.
Yelena Tumanova just hopes someone will be held responsible for ordering the illicit mission on which her son died.
Describes the mission on which Sergeant Smith earned the award; tells about the presentation; and privileges that go with the highest military award.
That was the mission on which Tom DeLay and other congressional Republicans sent their staffers to do paid-for service in Miami.
The case, brought by three Eritrean asylum seekers, centred on the Danish fact-finding mission on which the report was based, which has been criticised as misleading and inaccurate by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Human Rights Watch and others.
Fighting international cyber-terrorism isn't easy, but it's a mission on which we can all agree, right?
