It had an economic agenda as well as a scientific mission.

I'll come back to Venus with a proper scientific mission.

It would complete the cover of the whole thing as a scientific mission, too.

After that it completed quite a few of scientific missions.

"It also has a scientific, educational, social and diplomatic mission," he said.

After decades of study, the scientific mission at the space station has barely progressed.

"A new library was critical to the scientific mission of the museum."

Build and upgrade a communications network to support scientific missions.

It began its scientific mission on August 7, 1992.

And this was supposed to be a peaceful scientific mission, she recalled.