1.   He and I had flown the last mission together, my first hot mission.

2.   His very first authentic combat mission as commander.

3.   ...the first shuttle mission.

4.   The trade offices, which would perform limited consular functions, represented the first permanent missions to be exchanged between the two countries.

5.   The first rescue mission by French troops last week had to be abandoned when they were caught in cross-fire.

6.   Amid all of that came the first orbital mission of John Glenn.

7.   And then Clark will tell Hendrix to launch the first Apache mission when he is ready.

8.   And that first raid was the first mission for Harry and his crew.

9.   Besides brief stints in the Slovak Republic and in the former Soviet Georgia, this was his first long-term mission with the United Nations, the officials said.

10.   A four-hour documentary, directed by Ken Burns, about the first great mission of exploration mounted by the United States.