The missions include Asteroid rendezvous, Mars orbiter, Lunar lander, and so on.
The missions include providing aerospace education and training for all of its members, teaching leadership skills to Connecticut youth, and performing various domestic emergency services for the United States of America in a noncombatant capacity.
The methods used against the mission include the collection of data transmitted by implants, or bugs, placed inside electronic devices, and another covert operation that appears to provide a copy of everything on a targeted computer's hard drive.
Other exploratory objectives of the mission include the study of the galactic and local extragalactic magnetic field; the detection of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos, and tests of relativity and quantum gravity effects at extreme energies.
The scientific goals of the mission include studies of Venus's thick atmosphere and its mysterious circulation, of the planet's greenhouselike climate, and of its interaction with the solar wind.
Describes the dangers of the mission, including unexploded mines and poisonous snakes.
In addition to the British ambassador and American deputy ambassador, the mission included diplomats from Bangladesh, China, France, Jamaica, Mali, the Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine.
Andrew Baye, a 28-year-old Web developer in Altamont Springs, Fla., worked on the graphics for the mission, including the likeness of Mr. bin Laden.
Adm. William J. Fallon, commander of American forces in the Middle East, has ordered a full review of the mission, including the covert hunt for Taliban and Qaeda leaders.
The astronauts conducted numerous microgravity experiments during the mission, including an investigation of the formation of dendrites in metal and an examination of how metals solidify in microgravity.
The mission includes five spacewalks to connect the module to the station and to assemble the robot, which was made in Canada.
