Sentence examples for prepare a mission from inspiring English sources

The costs of launching a shuttle have dropped by about 40%, while the time to prepare a mission has been shortened by a third.

"When you look at some of the missions being launched, you have to wait a long time before getting the data," Butcher says, mentioning 7 to 8 years as an average time to prepare a mission.

Thus he is responsive to a request from the United States that he prepare a mission to discover the identity of the terrorists and take their cell out of action.

We have already implemented some of the recommendations and the Netherlands offered to utilise the last four or five days of the consultant's time to help us prepare a mission statement for humanitarian activities and we are appreciative of that.

If the strategy wins support from Congress and the new Bush Administration, oceanographers will prepare a "signature mission" to circumnavigate the globe with the same spirit of open-ended discovery as Lewis and Clark's expedition, says panel chair Marcia McNutt of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California.

The United States says it needs time to prepare a post-2014 mission and set an end of year deadline that has now passed.

As 2014 has been designated "Survival" year here, there's even a chance to try some commando training yourself: prepare for a mission, make a compass then take on the outdoor assault course – if you dare!

Published in conjunction with the UK Space Agency, this book shows us what it takes to become an astronaut and prepare for a mission in outer space.

The training was necessary to prepare for a mission as complex as this one, the division's commanders said, but the schedule has bent the time limits set by Congress in 1994.

A few months later, the battalion was also warned to prepare for a mission to rescue thousands of Allied prisoners held by the Japanese at Sandakan in North Borneo.

To prepare for a mission to discover the location of the Covenant's homeworld, SPARTAN-II soldiers are recalled to Reach.