Sentence examples for previous mission from inspiring English sources

The previous mission chief and deputy chief were stripped of their visas in April.

That's a reference to Alan Poindexter, call-sign "Dex," who was the pilot on the previous mission, known within NASA's abbreviation-studded language as STS-122.

The module is so heavy that much of its equipment was shipped up on that previous mission as well, in a small room known a logistics module.

Appointed by the UN human rights council, the former minister with the centre-left Workers' party spent her previous mission this year looking at slum housing in Indonesia.

The previous mission, Apollo 13, did not make a lunar landing and climaxed with the crippled capsule's nerve-wracking return journey to Earth.

Like Commander Kelly, he was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps in 1996, and has flown one previous mission, in 2001.

"Previous missions have been flybys, which gave us brief glimpses of comets," he said.

This would have been a pity, as the rocket has flown four previous missions and successfully landed each time.

The goal, he says, was to avoid "learned problems from previous missions", a form of advance troubleshooting.

The new task force receives information from the government-wide intelligence community and, like the two previous missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, has C.I.A. officers attached.

Previous missions found evidence that the red planet at one time boasted ample quantities of water, and the question is whether liquid water is still present.