What grander mission can there be than ensuring security and opportunity for all? (totalpolitics.com)
Overriding all of these individual objectives is the one grand mission that makes the organization tick, the driver that keeps everyone employed. (sciencemag.org)
Cassini, a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, has been studying the Saturn system since 2004, and its grand mission will come to a close in 2017, after the spacecraft makes a series of dives through the space between the planet and its rings. (scientificamerican.com)