[Ads-l] Antedating of "Mission Critical"

[Shapiro, Fred]

mission critical (OED 1976)

1973 Christian Science Monitor 15 May 10 in A Dictionary of the Space Age 133
In days of shrinking budgets, NASA decided that a number of tests and studies not mission critical could be dispensed with.

Fred Shapiro

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