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 wake-up, the orbit insertion, the Philae landing and the close approach to the Sun could make Rosetta one of the most remarkable missions we've ever seen.
Atonement lies only in a return to his native city in the summer of 2001, and a remarkable mercy mission.
The same humane determination to stop people dying needlessly lay behind a remarkable mercy mission launched by American millionaire Chris Catrambone and his Italian wife Regina.
That chance encounter, on Tuesday afternoon, set off one of the remarkable rescue missions that have saved the lives of a few lucky earthquake victims.
"Now, users with the latest Apple TV can explore and enjoy our remarkable images, videos, mission information, NASA Television and more on the big screen with the whole family," said NASA associate administrator for communications David Weaver in a press release.
(Even more remarkable, the UN mission in Mali now faces a staggering shortfall of $250 million).
He flew a remarkable 319 combat missions over five tours of duty in Vietnam and is the only pilot to have ever flown the B-52, F-105 and F-111 in combat.
Even then Aaron had a remarkable clarity about his mission in life: to find and do stuff that a) was interesting; b) was fun; and, not least, c) would help everyone have more access to information we needed and could re-use in all kinds of ways.
What made China's mission especially remarkable was that it was the first soft-landing on the moon in 37 years, since the Russians landed their Luna 24 probe back in 1976.
