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unusual facts about EAS ''Apollo''



Agena

RM-81 Agena, a rocket upper stage family developed by Lockheed, especially the Agena target vehicle used in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions

Albert L. Hopkins

worked at the US MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Draper Lab) during the development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control System, or the GN&C.

Amphryssos

In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" (48) Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes.

Apollo Chorus of Chicago

In recent years, the Apollo Chorus has performed with artists such as Jackie Evancho and Josh Groban, and was featured on Oprah Winfrey's final show.

Atepomarus

At some of Apollo's healing sanctuaries (as at Sainte-Sabine, Burgundy) small figurines of horses were associated with him.

Béco Dranoff

In 1998, Dranoff co-founded the modern Brazilian music label Ziriguiboom in association with Belgium’s Crammed Discs, launching the international careers of artists Bebel Gilberto, Celso Fonseca, Cibelle, Zuco 103, Trio Mocotó, Bossacucanova, Apollo Nove, DJ Dolores and the late producer Suba.

Bell Pogo

Bell built several versions of the rocket POGO under contract with the NASA because it was intended to be used as a means of transportation on the moon during the Apollo missions; however NASA decided not to use the POGO because of the risk of a crash, and decided to send the Rover car instead of the POGO.

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just is a biography of African-American biologist Ernest Everett Just, written in 1983 by Kenneth R. Manning.

Blaise Daniel Staples

The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist explores the role that entheogens in general, and Amanita muscaria in particular, played in Greek and biblical mythology and later on in Renaissance painting, most notably in the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald.

Brazil lunar sample displays

According to moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the whereabouts of the Brazil Apollo 11 lunar sample display is unknown.

Cabra, Spain

Apollo also possessed a temple dedicated to him as well as an important aqueduct of 5 miles, constructed for Marco Cornelio Novano Bebio Balbo, flamen provincial and Prefect romano of the college of the engineers of Igabrum.

Canada lunar sample displays

According to moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the whereabouts of the Canadian Apollo 11 goodwill lunar display is unknown.

Clark Heinrich

The book The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist deals with possible occurrences of entheogens in general, and Amanita muscaria in particular, in Greek and biblical mythology and later on in Renaissance painting, most notably in the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald.

Command module

The Apollo Command Module, the crew cabin of the Apollo Command/Service Module, used in the Apollo program to send men to the Moon and low Earth orbit, designed specifically to return through the atmosphere to a water landing

Constantinos Coconis

Constantinos (Ted) Coconis is an American illustrator who illustrated many children's books, including the 1971 Newbery Award-winning The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars, and The Golden God, Apollo by Doris Gates.

Delaware lunar sample displays

The Delaware Apollo 17 lunar samples plaque display was presented by NASA astronaut Paul Joseph Weitz to then-Delaware Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt on January 21, 1975.

Douglas Arthur Watkinson

Watkinson has also written plays for the stage including The Dragon’s Tail which also starred Penelope Keith, as directed by Michael Rudman and was performed at the Apollo Theatre and Richmond Theatre in London in 1985.

Eastsound, Washington

Notable residents include Apollo 8 Astronaut William "Bill" Anders and cartoonist Gary Larson.

Edgar Selwyn

The Selwyns owned several theatres in the United States including the Park Square Theatre in Boston; the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Selwyn in Chicago; and the Selwyn, Apollo, and Times Square theatres in New York City.

Federiko Benković

By 1715, he came to the service of the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz Lothar Franz von Schönborn and was to complete four large canvas masterpieces for the gallery in the Schloss Weißenstein in the town of Pommersfelden: Apollo and Marcia, Hagar and Ishmael in the desert, Iphigenia’s sacrifice and Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac.

Flux Family Secrets: The Rabbit Hole

There, the player finds the missing Apollo components by fixing these historical events with the help of Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford and Paul Revere.

Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201

The work is scored for Momus (soprano), Mercurius (alto), Tmolus (tenor), Midas (tenor), Phoebus (bass), Pan (bass), a six-part choir of those voices, three trumpets, timpani, two tranverse flutes, two oboes d'amore, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.

Gran Paradiso National Park

The park supports many species of butterflies including apollos, peak whites, and southern white admirals.

Holte Bridgman's Apollo Gardens

Entertainments at the Apollo included music – concerts of trios and duets by Arne and Handel are recorded in 1748 – and fireworks.

Isidore Pils

Among his other work, Pils painted part of the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Palais Garnier, in four panels titled "The Gods of Olympus", "Apollo in His Chariot", "Triumph of Harmony", and "Apotheosis of the Opera", completed the year of his death.

James Goodnight

His programming skills helped him land a position at a company building electronic equipment for the ground stations that communicated with the Apollo space capsules.

Josh Bray

Whilst the other half of the record was recorded in London’s Apollo Control Studios by renowned producer Howard Gray and Ashley Krajewski.

Malcolm Charles Salaman

He wrote regularly on prints for the art magazines The Studio and Apollo.

Morgan Clark

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform (targeting North America's eastern seaboard) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo (previously fighting against Sheridan) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life ("Endgame").

New Theatre Oxford

The New Theatre Oxford (known, for a period, as the Apollo Theatre Oxford or simply The Apollo from 1977–2003) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people.

Paean

Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods, Dionysus, Helios, Asclepius.

Parnassius hardwickii

This butterfly is found from the Chitral District to Sikkim and is found from 6000 ft to 17,000 ft, making it one of the most commonly encountered species of Apollo in the Indian subcontinent.

Persian Sibyl

The Persian Sibyl (also known as the Babylonian, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl) was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle.

Planetary protection

During the Apollo program the sample returns were regulated through the Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law.

Pollena Trocchia

Pollena took its name from the cult of Apollo, who had an important temple here in the Roman and pre-Roman ages.

Saint Louis Science Center

On the day that a full-scale replica of the Apollo space capsule was put on display, 3,000 visitors came through the doors.

Savikalpa

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has compared the experience of seeing the earth from space, also known as the overview effect, to savikalpa samadhi.

Simon Grynaeus

He adopted the name Grynaeus from the epithet of Apollo in Virgil.

Space Task Group

For instance, President Richard Nixon appointed such a group in February 1969 to outline a post-Apollo spaceflight strategy, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

Space Transportation System

In February 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed a Space Task Group headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew to recommend human space projects beyond Apollo.

Spain lunar sample displays

Blanco's son ultimately gifted the Apollo 17 display with the 1 gram "goodwill moon rock" to the Naval Museum in Madrid in 2007.

Texana Presbyterian Church

Texana Presbyterian Church is a historic church at Apollo Drive and Country Club Lane in Edna, Texas.

The Apollo of Bellac

The Apollo of Bellac (French title: L'Apollon de Bellac or L'Apollon de Marsac) is a comedic one-act play written in 1942 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

Troy VII

These dates correspond closely to the mythical chronology of Greece as calculated by classical authors, placing the construction of the walls of Troy by Poseidon, Apollo and Aeacus at 1282 BC and the sack of Troy by the Greeks at 1183 BC.

United States Air Force Academy Cemetery

Samuel C. Phillips, Air Force four-star general, Director of Apollo Program through Apollo 11 - Man's First Steps on the Moon.

Universally unique identifier

UUIDs were originally used in the Apollo Network Computing System and later in the Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), and then in Microsoft Windows platforms as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs).

Universidad Latinoamericana

In 2007, it was purchased by the Apollo Group Inc.,a corporation based in the Phoenix, Arizona.

Universities Superannuation Scheme

The scheme formerly owned Telford Shopping Centre in Telford, Shropshire, prior to its sale to Hark Group and Apollo Real Estate.

Vale of Tempe

On the right bank of the Pineios sat a temple to Apollo, near which the laurels used to crown the victorious in the Pythian Games were gathered.

Walter E. Freed

In 1979 Freed settled in Dorset and became President of Apollo Industries, a petroleum marketer which operates gasoline stations and convenience stores in several states.


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