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Catalog #: Casson_0081
Title: Apollo Capsule
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 4/20/1966
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The only Factory built Apollo with GM Corvette Engine
The Apollo GT was the brainchild of young Californian engineer Milt Brown who wanted to create an American car that could rival the European GT cars of the day. The car was designed by Hungarian engineer and immigrant Frank Reisner who, while on holiday in Turin, established a shop under the name of 'Intermeccanica'. By early 1963, a deal had been made and the first Apollo GT's went on production. The car's bodywork was produced in Turin by Intermeccanica and then shipped across the Atlantic to Oakland, California where Brown installed the drivetrain. The car was first styled by a friend of Milt Brown named Ron Plescia. However, the car's nose was thought to be too long and its rear-visibility too limited. Because of this, Reisner contracted former Bertone stylist Franco Scallion to revisit the design resulting in the current design.
Initially, Apollo's were sold only in two-seat configuration although a later 2+2 prototype was shown at the 1965 New York Auto Show. Brown's International Motorcars sold a total of 88 cars. Unfortunately, production of the car ended in mid-1964 due to a lack of financing.
This example was sold in 1965 and was likely built toward the end of the original round of Apollo production in California. Milt Brown remembers this car were well, as it was to be the transition from Buick 215 Alloy to Chevrolet power. They used the higher horsepower 327 Corvette motor (300 hp) which was a vast improvement over the small Buick motor. Just as the car was completed, Buick came out with their 300 cubic inch motor and the decision was made to continue with the Buick engines for the rest of the Apollos built, making this a unique car among a run of about 39 coupés built by the original company. Dr. Robert Turcios purchased this Chevrolet-powered Apollo in 1975 in Santa Rosa California. In 1976, Dr. Turcios was contacted by Walt Disney Productions, to rent the car to them for their new movie "Herbie goes to Monte Carlo". The car appeared in the movie driven by American Sports Car Legend Max Balchowsky. This one-off large displacement Italian bodied GT from the sixties, that has Milestone status, has been with the same marque specialist for over 40 years in California's dry climate.
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2016
Knokke - Belgium
Oktober 2016
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith. Opened as the Gaumont Palace in March 1932, having been long planned (from 1925) with initially the Davis family as promoters, but latterly Gaumont British. It was designed by Robert Cromie, and had 3,487 seats in stalls and balcony levels, plus standing room for a further 225. It is art deco in style, with panels by Newbury A. Trent. The Gaumont was equipped with a 35ft deep stage, full fly tower with 28 double purchase counterweight lines, a 64ft wide proscenium arch, and 20 dressing rooms. There is an 4 rank / 15 rank Compton organ, reinstated in 2005 after many years in storage. The Gaumont was renamed Odeon in 1962, regular films ceased in 1984, but sometimes occasionally play dates. It became the Apollo in 1992, and has been taken over by various companies over the years (Clear Channel; MAMA; HMV; Stage C) but is currently owned by CTS Eventim. As the finest surviving work by Robert Cromie, and (together with the Plaza Stockport), one of the greatest, and least altered 1930s super cinemas, the Apollo is grade 2* listed, and had a major refurbishment (Foster Wilson Architects) in the summer of 2013, uncovering and restoring many decorative features of the building. The Apollo is regularly featured on film and television, from "The Smallest Show on Earth" (1956 feature film) to "Live From The Apollo" regular TV Stand-up recording (18, and counting, series beginning 2004). Taken on a visit arranged by the Cinema Theatre Association.
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, West London, Greater London, England - Eventim Apollo Theatre, Queen Caroline Street / Talgarth Road / Fulham Palace Road
April 2024
Apollo clinging to a Fringed Pink flower in windy conditions. Regional Natural Park of Vercors, France.
Apollon s'accrochant à une fleur d'oeillet de montpellier par temps venteux. Parc naturel régional du Vercors, France.
Apollo 16 CM-113 "Casper." Launched April 16, 1972, Casper took LM-11 "Orion" to the moon on April 27. Crew: John W. Young, Commander; Thomas K. Mattingly II, Command Module Pilot; Charles M. Duke, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot.
It's been a very long time since I've seen Apollo in Buckie, it usually favours trawling out of the west coast in Atlantic waters. Smart looking boat.
Command and Service Module (CSM-105) was originally used for acoustic and vibration testing. The spacecraft is now part of the Apollo-Soyuz (ASTP) display at the National Air and Space Museum.
Some image from Dress Rehearsal for the forthcoming performance of :
The Private Ear and The Public Eye
Two one-act plays by Peter Shaffer
19-27 October 2018
This week in 1969, Apollo 11 launched. The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy less than a decade earlier: to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. An estimated 530 million people watched astronaut Neil Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "... one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" four days later. This photo shows the Saturn V's second stage being lowered into place atop the first stage in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn V rocket was designed, managed and built by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Se han descrito un gran número de subespecies de Parnassius apollo, casi una por montaña donde está presente la mariposa. Todavía son abundantes. Sin embargo, su futuro es incierto: A largo plazo, el cambio climático que comenzó hace 10.000 años y que continua en nuestros dias las convierte en claras candidatas a la extinción natural.
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Exif data
Camera Canon IXUS 220 HS
Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture f/2.7
Focal Length 4.3 mm
ISO Speed 800
Custom Battlestar Galactica Apollo figure. This is in the same scale as Mattel's 1978 figure line. He just needs painting...and a few cubits to spend on Saturday nights.
Some years ago Richard Hatch admitted that he refused to sell the rights to his likeness to Mattel and so we never got an Apollo figure then. He did say he regretted not doing it then to some extent.
It was hot, but it was wonderful to be a part of the Apollo 50 Festival on the National Mall over the past few days! Visitors from around the country and the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and celebrated the excitement and inspiration surrounding past, present, and future NASA missions.
Credit: NASA/Peter Sooy
July 17, 2011: The Apollo 14 Capsule on display inside the Apollo/Saturn V Center on the grounds of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. [DSC_6568-D7000]
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The plaque on the wall next to the capsule reads as follows:
Apollo 14 Capsule
“I think about the personal accomplishment, but there’s more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.” - Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 Commander
January 31 - February 9, 1971
Space is a dangerous place, complete with micro-meteoroids, radiation and airlessness. And coming home from it is not easy task. The compact and confined command module with its three man crew would be welcomed and engulfed by searing white-hot flames as it slammed through the atmosphere back down to Earth.
“In designing the command module, the one thing we had to be sure of was that we could keep the crew alive — that was a big item,” said Max Faget, NASA chief engineer and principal designer of the command module.
The engineers at North American Rockwell (NASA’s prime contractor for the command module) were up to that challenge. 14,000 people and a talented collection of 9,000 other companies, all worked to ensure that millions of components on the command module were in perfect order.
Named Kitty Hawk, the capsule was crafted with more than 2,000,000 parts; nearly 15 miles (24 km) of wire; a control panel with 24 instruments, 566 switches, 40 indicators and 71 lights. It would take a journey of 500,000 miles (804,672 km) before it safely delivered the crew back home with a cargo of more than 100 pounds (45 kg) of moon rocks.
Apollo 11 had gotten humans (and the United States) to the Moon; Apollos 12 and 14 had proven it could be done more than once, and Apollo 13 had nearly ended in tragedy. With budget cuts now limiting NASA to only three more missions after Apollo 14, the last three missions--so-called "J missions"--would be longer stays on the Moon with more emphasis on scientific research. The problem was, most of the astronauts weren't scientists--at least not the kind the scientific community demanded. What was needed were geologists, and none of the Apollo astronauts were that.
Apollo 15's crew consisted of mission commander David Scott, command module (CM) pilot Alfred Worden, and lunar module (LM) pilot James Irwin. Originally, Apollo 13 was to have a lot of emphasis on geology as well, and that crew had trained extensively in the field. After Apollo 13's crew barely survived and never made it to the Moon, this task fell to Apollo 15, who were slated to land at the Hadley Rille. Scott was particularly enthusiastic about training, and the crew, partnered with geology teachers from Caltech, scoured Arizona and New Mexico. At first, they worked in shirt sleeves, but as the launch date approached, they began wearing more and more of the equipment they would carry to the Moon, short of actual spacesuits.
Scott, Worden and Irwin climbed aboard Apollo 15 on 26 July 1971; the CM was named Endeavour for HMS Endeavour (a later Space Shuttle would also bear the name), while the LM was named Falcon (as Scott and Worden were USAF, and it honored the US Air Force Academy's mascot). Launch and the journey to the Moon went without a hitch, and Scott and Worden rode down to the Moon on 30 July. Because of the need to carry more supplies and the Lunar Rover to the Moon, the LM carried a larger engine than previous missions, and it kicked up so much dust that Scott could not see the surface. When Irwin told him one of the landing probes had made contact, Irwin cut the engine--and the Falcon landed so hard it almost tipped the LM over.
Luckily, that proved to be the only glitch in the mission. Scott and Irwin performed dozens of experiments and became the first people to drive on the moon, moving around on the Lunar Rover, on its first mission. They recovered some of the earliest rocks known to man, giving valuable knowledge of the geology of both the Moon and Earth, as well as other experiments. After spending 19 hours on the Moon, Scott and Irwin returned to the Endeavour and Worden. Unknown to NASA at the time, the two astronauts had quietly left the "Fallen Astronaut" memorial behind: a small figure representing an astronaut, and a memorial plaque with the names of American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died, either on missions or in training, to that point.
The return home was also uneventful, though Worden made a spacewalk to retrieve film canisters from the service module--the first time it had been done outside of Earth orbit. After splashdown and recovery, however, a controversy arose: the crew had carried 400 stamps with them. While that was done with NASA's knowledge and blessing, the crew then handed over 100 of the stamps to a German stamp dealer, who sold them for $1500 apiece; originally, the crew was supposed to get $7000 in compensation, but they thought better of it and refused the money. Nonetheless, when NASA learned of it--astronauts were not supposed to make a profit off their flights--and of the Fallen Astronaut memorial, all three of the crew were banned from further spaceflight. It had been Scott's third flight (he had been on Gemini 8 and Apollo 9), but Irwin and Worden's only flight. Worden passed away in 2020, while Irwin died of a heart attack in 1991; Scott is still alive as of this writing.
After examination of the CM Endeavour, it, like most of the other Apollo capsules, was donated to the Smithsonian by NASA, which then loaned it to the USAF. It was placed on display at the National Museum of the USAF in 1973.
When I was a kid, I dimly remember seeing Apollo 15 when we visited the NMUSAF in 1977. When I returned 40 years later, I got this picture. Unlike the other Apollo capsules I've seen, Apollo 15 is open to the air.
1400px wallpaper-sized version here: Link
Tonight's moon is the fullest it will be until 2016. It's 30% brighter and 14% larger than an average full moon, thanks to the moon being in its closest position in its orbit.
In honour of the event, I decided to take a photo and learn enough about the Apollo Lunar Lander missions to create a landing map. I think it was probably some of the most fascinating homework I’ve ever assigned myself! :)
This photo is dedicated to all the members of the Apollo missions. Their bravery, ingenuity, and dedication was simply incredible.
Catalog #: Casson_0012
Title: Apollo Lunar Capsule
Photo Credit: North American Aviation Inc., Space and Information Systems Division, Photographic Department
Year: 3/7/1966
Collection: Norm Casson Collection
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Apollo Kitharoidos. Painted plaster, Roman artwork from the Augustan period. From the Scalae Caci on the Palatine Hill. Antiquarium of the Palatine, Inv. 379982.
via fisheye. used my lomo ring flash for this one. just experimenting; certainly works much better when I'm using the fisheye vs. my standard lens.
December 6, 1972: Journalists and Reporters accredited at NASA, from all over the world are present at the press conference of Apollo 17 mission, at Cocoa Beach in the Apollo News Center (1355 North Atlantic Avenue) in front of "NASA Holiday Inn ".
Present at the press conference: Owen G. Morris (Apollo spacecraft prog MGR, Houston, Walter K. Kapryan (Launch Director, KSC), Chester M. Lee (Apollo Director), Alan B. Shepard (Chief Astronaut Office). Howard Tinndall (Director, Flight OPS, Houston) and Dr. Rocco A. Petrone (Apollo Program Director)
Dan Beaumont Information and photo.
APOLLO 17, Terrific launch LIVE, " EXCEPTIONAL REAL SOUND ", Dan Beaumont film, Dec. 7,1972, HD VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIvOYFOm6c
and Flickr: Apollo 17, the NASA Apollo News Center, Cocoa-beach, December 6, 1972 www.flickr.com/photos/mrdanbeaumont/7295843658/in/photost...
The Apollo Bulker down bound on the Hudson River near Cold Spring, NY with Storm King Mountain behind.
IMO number: 9459151
Name of the ship: APOLLO BULKER
Type of ship: CARGO
MMSI: 477266600
Gross tonnage: 21483 tons
DWT: 33124 tons
Year of build: 2011
Builder: KANDA SHIPBUILDING - KURE, JAPAN
Flag: HONG KONG (CHINA)
Home port: HONG KONG
Class society: NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI
Manager & owner: BSM HONG KONG - HONG KONG, CHINA