Sentence examples for private missions from inspiring English sources

With NASA ending the Space Shuttle program and refocusing on orchestrating private missions, such work seems likely to go the way of sports stadiums and television shows.

In addition to his full-time job at the M.I.T. lab, Dr. Brooks is chairman and chief technical officer at iRobot, a 10-year-old robotics company in Cambridge, Mass., that started out making robots for private missions to the moon and Mars.

Now that there are proposals for private missions to the Moon, a plan to send a married couple to Mars and space agency ambitions to fly a crew of six into deep space to explore asteroids, this is no longer a theoretical question.

Such private missions trouble some watchdogs.

And there is growing interest in private missions as well.

Since the Keck study's release, two U.S. companies have announced plans to send private missions to asteroids as space mining ventures.

The White House called his trip a "solely private mission".

"If you have a public mission, it costs more than a private mission," he said.

Both the Premier League and the FA were quick to emphasise that Richards was in the Gulf on a private mission.

The B612 Foundation refers to its planned telescope as the world's first private mission to deep space.

Other private lunar missions will now hope to claim the prize of becoming the first private mission to land on the Moon.