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  • "We're looking at medium-class missions" that will be smaller and less-ambitious than the original ones, Mr. Bolden said, while stressing that NASA remains committed to continued international cooperation for exploring Mars.

    NASA Seeks Cuts to Unmanned Missions Andy Pasztor 2012

  • A third private space contractor, Orbital Sciences Corporation, is developing the experimental Taurus II medium-class rocket to resupply the international space station.

    Date Set for Launch of World’s Most Powerful Commercial Rocket 2011

  • Boeing will receive $18 million to work on a seven-person capsule that may launch on a medium-class expendable launch vehicle.

    The Faces of the "New Frontier" of NASA's Commercial Space Flight Plan | Universe Today 2010

  • These three mission concepts have been chosen by the European Space Agency's Science Programme Committee SPC as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017.

    ESA's Tough Choice: Dark Matter, Sun Close Flyby, Exoplanets (Pick Two) | Universe Today 2010

  • The $650 million cost was a placeholder assigned to a medium-class Mars rover mission by the National Research Council Solar System Decadal Survey committee in 2002, before NASA had developed a basis of cost estimate for MSL.

    MSL Cost Overruns: More Smoke and Mirrors from NASA - NASA Watch 2008

  • BBB: medium-class borrowers that are currently in satisfactory condition

    Broke Glenn Beck 2010

  • If one may use terminology reminiscent of the sea, these were medium-class tharlarion, comparatively light beasts, at least compared to their brethren of the contact cavalries, such cavalries being opposed to the sorts commonly employed in missions such as foraging, scouting, skirmishing and screening troop movements.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • If one may use terminology reminiscent of the sea, these were medium-class tharlarion, comparatively light beasts, at least compared to their brethren of the contact cavalries, such cavalries being opposed to the sorts commonly employed in missions such as foraging, scouting, skirmishing and screening troop movements.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • The TOWs, in theory, would engage first, although again it was apparent that the normal European medium-class terrain would provide only limited opportunities to make full use of their maximum 3750 metres range and long time of flight.

    First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

  • A medium-class galley of the Voskjard slipped past our bow, the tooth of her ram failing to feed, the water from her cleft passage, swelling away from her, forcing us to port.

    Guardsman Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1981

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