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Meanings of mission commander in English
Astronaut/cosmonaut responsible for overall mission success, safety of crew and spacecraft, and maneuvering.
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Examples for "captain"
Examples for "captain"
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The captain replied, 'That'll change.' Then, 'What was that you said, Ruger?'
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The captain looked grave; Mrs. Willoughby anxious; Beulah interested; and Maud thoughtful.
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I didn't know exactly what was wrong, the former Test captain said.
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His captain saw this as treachery; Pietersen saw it as common sense.
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McGuire, Hugh H., Jr.; enlisted March 10; transferred to cavalry; captain; killed.
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The commander did invaluable work in the Kosovo crisis, Mr Lockhart said.
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He said, 'Her commander is a friend of Sir Richard's, I believe?'
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Joining us is the Far North area police commander, Inspector Chris Scahill.
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A local military commander visited the club this week to offer support.
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However, an Iranian commander said Tehran was prepared to do it again.
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James A. McDivitt, named to be the spacecraft commander, said the experiment will be one of the highlights of the four-day mission.
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Buccari smiled, taking the command pilot's rudeness as a good sign.
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The commanding officer of the fighter group, a full colonel and command pilot, believed that UFO's were real.
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Only the command pilot had remained on board and he was in the final process of unbelting when Kassad shot him.
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He was command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission and backup command pilot for the Gemini 11 mission, both in 1966.
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But RAF Fighter Command pilot Ray Holmes, whose Hurricane's eight guns had just run out of ammo, had other ideas.
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"The presence of one alien spacecraft does not logically imply any other alien spacecraft ," Captain Macmillan said.
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So it must have been Tulia teleporting herself out of the place like a space captain in a speely.
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It was another example of the clean, ordered spaces Captain Pretorius specialized in.
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Some got real big on their own-politiciansand space captains and Com police, that level.
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The universe's most popular space commander at the moment has to be the I(...)
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Norton, like all space commanders, was a cautious man.
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Actually, interactive television has been with us since Zenith introduced the Space Commander remote control in 1962.
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We're counting on you to find out what's happening out there, a general in the space commanders warns Roy.
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Seated in an acceleration chair, a safety belt across his middle, was Space Commander Keven O'Brine, an Irishman out of Dublin.
Usage of mission commander in English
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Dad was mission commander; of course he would have kept a visual souvenir.
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Stalemate, right at the end of the meeting Dave Scott, mission commander, gave his opinion on it.
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President," said Cochran, "you'll have the mission commander's quarters.
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The air mission commander, Clay Hutmacher, was sitting in the jump seat just behind the two pilots.
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In "Gravity," Bullock plays a novice astronaut and engineer alongside Clooney as a mission commander.
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Colonel Michael Beary is to take on the role of mission commander of the EU's Somali training mission.
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Then Lieut Shane Osborn, mission commander, an American flag folded crisply under his arm, stepped up to the microphone.
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Apollo 15, 1971, Dave Scott was the mission commander.
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Nelson continued to press the issue, but Hoot Gibson, the mission commander, remained firm...his mission specialists would do the major experiments.
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Mission Commander Hank Hartsfield and his wife, Fran, are in the background.
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It wasn't just mission commanders who were bothered with part-timer issues.
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Mission commander Gennady Padalka has logged 711 days in orbit, making him the world's fourth most experienced astronaut
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Mission commanders provided their own additional training in the form of the admonishment "Don't touch any shuttle switches!"
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As Mission Commander Melissa Battler said, "Humans, we are explorers… there are a lot of obstacles but we can overcome those obstacles."
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And as a look of slow recognition and wonder came over the young woman's face, the normally reserved Mission Commander was overcome by emotion.