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unusual facts about The Apollo



Sam Wooding

On 14 February 1934, Wooding and his orchestra were featured at The Apollo theater in Harlem in a Clarence Robinson production titled Chocolate Soldiers, starring the Broadway star Adelaide Hall.


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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

Apollo 11 missing tapes

The Apollo 11 missing tapes are missing slow-scan television (SSTV) recordings of the lunar transmissions broadcast during the Apollo 11 moonwalk, which was the first time human beings walked on the Moon.

Apollo 6

There was little press coverage of the Apollo 6 mission mainly because on the same day as the launch, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, and President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection only four days before.

Apollo Belvedere

In addition to Dürer, the Apollo was sketched and copied by several major artists during the late Renaissance, including Michelangelo, Bandinelli, and Goltzius.

Apollo Bridge

It is named for the "Apollo" (modern successor: Slovnaft) oil refinery which was situated on the left river bank in this area before World War II.

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.

Apollo Club of Boston

In 1874, the Apollo Club sang at the funeral services of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner and received a note of appreciation from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Apollo Lunar Module

According to George Low, Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, this was because NASA was afraid that the word "excursion" might lend a frivolous note to Apollo.

Apollo Perelini

He was named 'Apollo 11' because he was born on the day that the Apollo space project was launched.

AS-204

Apollo 5, the first test of the Apollo Lunar Module, which used the AS-204 rocket that was originally intended for Apollo 1

Astronaut Badge

It was made at the request of the crew of the first manned mission of the Apollo program as a tribute to Slayton's work at NASA.

Bell Aircraft

Bell also designed the rocket engine used in the Apollo LEM Ascent Propulsion System, which was responsible for getting NASA's astronauts off the moon.

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.

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

Coventry Theatre

It opened in 1937 as the New Hippodrome and was renamed Coventry Theatre in 1955 and in 1979 it was purchased by businessman Paul Gregg and became the Apollo Theatre.

Cyprus lunar sample displays

The plaque display with the Apollo 17 "moon rock" and the Cyprus flag were kept at the US embassy in Nicosia for protection during the tumultuous events of the 1974 coup d'état (Turkish invasion).

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.

Edgar Cortright

His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.

Etruscan Sibyl

The Etruscan Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle.

Foz Foster

Foster's next soundtrack was for the 1920 horror film, The Golem: How He Came into the World, which Sawchestra performed at the Apollo Theatre, Piccadilly, as part of the 2011 London Sci-Fi Festival.

Francis Atterbury

He was figured by Swift in the Battle of the Books as the Apollo who directed the fight, and was, no doubt, largely the author of Boyle's essay.

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.

Although the Apollo Gardens were smaller and less successful than their principal rival, the Birmingham Vauxhall Gardens in Duddeston, an article from 1787 in Aris's Birmingham Gazette described them as "lovely, sequestered and elegant" and described how they could be reached by pleasure boat on the River Rea, travelling under the bridges of Deritend, Bradford Street and Cheapside past field paths "gay with wild flowers".

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.

James Humes

James C. Humes, co-author of the text on the Apollo 11 lunar plaque

John D. Vanderhoof

In 2010, Richard Kevin Griffis, a graduate student at the University of Phoenix was assigned the task of tracking down the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock by his Professor Joseph Gutheinz.

Live at the Apollo: The Proclamation

Byron Cage's album Live At the Apollo: The Proclamation was recorded live at the Apollo Theater on April 26, 2007 with production by PAJAM and featured guests J Moss, Kim Burrell, & Dave Hollister.

Lunar plaque

James C. Humes, a speech writer for President Nixon and four other presidents, is partly credited for authoring the text on the Apollo 11 lunar plaque.

Mobile Launcher Platform 3

After NASA decided to move Saturn IB launches from LC-34 to LC-39, it was modified by the addition of a structure known as the Milkstool, which allowed the Saturn IB to use the same Launch Umbilical Tower as the much larger Saturn V. Three manned flights to Skylab, and the Apollo launch for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, were conducted from ML-1 using the Milkstool.

Moon Machines

It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V to the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits, the Guidance and Control Computer, and the Lunar Rover.

Moon rocket

Saturn V - the Apollo program launcher for the manned moon landings

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.

Orion abort modes

Unlike the Apollo Launch Escape System, which used a pair of "canards" and the weight of the spacecraft to flip the vehicle over for landing, the Orion LAS has a set of steering rockets that will steer the spacecraft away from the malfunctioning SLS, as well as prepare the spacecraft for both separation and splashdown.

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.

RaVaughn

At age 16, RaVaughn won two rounds and qualified for the finals in "Showtime at the Apollo" at the famous Apollo Theater in New York City.

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.

Samian Sibyl

The Samian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle near Hera's temple on the Isle of Samos, a Greek colony.

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.

Sweden lunar sample displays

The Apollo 11 plaque display given to Sweden by President Nixon in 1970 was reported missing by the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm on September 7, 2002.

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.

The Message Trust

Founder and current CEO Andy Hawthorne together with his businessman brother Simon felt stirred to present the Christian gospel message relevantly to the young people of Manchester and organised a week of mission gigs at the Apollo.

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.