At the time Korea was a tributary state of the Ming, sending missions bearing gifts in exchange for nominal protection, and so Japan's challenge could not go unanswered.
It sent mission after mission to teach good governance, some of which succeeded and some of which ran into what former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called "the Afghan allergy" to dictates from foreign occupiers.
For many who watched in awe as Nasa sent mission after mission to the Moon, a return to the lunar surface is not only possible but inevitable.
They also sent missions to the West Indies and later to Africa.
The five-year, $475 million mission is part of the Scout program to send missions with relatively modest costs to regularly explore Mars.
When asked about the decision of the principal international election monitors not to send missions to observe the presidential elections, Mr. Putin was dismissive.
NASA sent missions to Hubble in 1993, 1997, 1999 and this year to correct problems, update instruments and keep the prized telescope in working order.
The UN and EU pledged to send missions to the region to call for restraint, while the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, warned the situation could spiral into a regional war.
Individual countries rarely send missions, although the United States has sent its own monitors to several countries, including Bosnia and Albania.Doing the job satisfactorily depends, largely, on the degree to which monitors can involve themselves in the procedures.
We have partners, like IRAP, International Road Assessment Program, where we send missions into a certain number of countries in order to do an inventory of the highway systems of these countries.
