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missions

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plural of mission

as in assignments

a specific task with which a person or group is charged your mission is to clean up the house before company arrives

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Recent Examples of missions That’s why Rosengren, UCSD colleagues Thomas Bewley and Ben Hanson, and colleagues at the University of Arizona are investigating rare, low-probability chances for destruction, thereby offering authorities the best advice on when to launch deflection missions. —

New Atlas, 10 May 2026 Now, a new study argues that the ancient impact likely came from north to south, overturning some earlier interpretations and potentially changing the scientific value of NASA’s future Artemis missions. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026 The company’s current workhorse rocket is the Falcon 9, which has completed over 50 missions so far in 2026. —

Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2026 The conspiracy theories — which claim NASA faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, and subsequent missions to win the Space Race, often alleging the events were filmed in a studio — have persisted for decades. —

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026 This breakthrough allows future missions to support heavier scientific payloads, including advanced sensors and larger batteries for extended flight. —

ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026 In one of these documents, Buzz Aldrin recounts seeing what might have been a piece of a Saturn V launch vehicle, the NASA rocket that helped loft the Apollo missions into space. —

Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 May 2026 The United States, adapting innovations pioneered by Israel during campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, deployed such platforms as the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper for both reconnaissance and strike missions. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026 Within the first four months of this year, the figures are already approaching the record annual highs set across 2025, during which Romania reported nine airspace violations, the discovery of fragments 16 times, 21 air policing missions and 28 attacks on Ukrainian targets close to Romania. —

David Brennan, ABC News, 2 May 2026

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Reuters — The Republican speaker of Tennessee’s House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous protests during last week’s special session on redistricting.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
Furthermore, per the committee’s findings, the mandatory DEI training inundated the department’s criminal investigations wing with group meetings, assignments, and other onerous tasks that took time away from actual fraud investigations.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 13 May 2026