mission

What we say to ourselves at CIA is, "Mission first, family always," which is still mission first.

When Malaysian astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor prepared for a Russian mission to the International Space Station in 2007, he faced all these challenges.

Today, if an astronaut needs emergency surgery, they have to ditch their mission and return to Earth.

Around 1900, former German colonial army officer Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorff placed himself at the mission’s helm.

The awkwardness of all the performances to me seemed to be part of a kind of mission statement, which I admired.

From the fifteenth century onward, European empires embarked on a so-called “civilizing” mission to convert the world to Christianity, bringing with it ideas about sexuality and gender with them.

Charters are schools that are fully state-funded, free of charge and run by independent entrepreneurs who follow their mission.