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Crew Boat
Fotodatum: 2024-02-17
Baujahr: 2021 | DWT: 60t | Breite: 11,0m | Tiefgang: 1,59m
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While I was in Geneva for the motorshow, I was following along closely on Instagram to see what cars were out and about in Geneva. Luckily I came across a place called 'Carugati Automobiles' and decided I should head there ASAP and I'm so glad I did as I managed to catch the insane Apollo IE just before it left. Insane day wrapped up with a few Pagani's and various other insane cars!
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Apollo 9 mission commander James A. McDivitt inside the Command Module "Gumdrop". Photo taken by lunar module pilot Russell L. "Rusty" Schweickart sometime between March 3-7, 1969.
Photo credit: NASA
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Forget-me-Knot
Confusion reigns in David Tristram’s superb comedy. Is anyone who they say they are?
Production kindly sponsored by Vectis Rotary.
11-13 and 16-19 May 2017 (note changed show dates for this production)
Forget-Me-Knot, by David Tristram, tells the tale of a man who may or may not be Robert Zeinfeld, found wandering and suffering from amnesia. Detective Inspector Monroe is the man charged with working out who this mystery man is, with the help – or rather hindrance – of Mrs Zeinfeld and his own wife Samantha.
Robert is a confused man, not of his own doing – a bump on the head resulting in amnesia and a night in the cells have attributed to that. Inspector Monroe is also a confused man, but he has nobody to blame but himself.
Robert has been found wandering the streets in his confused state. His Filofax knows who he is – but does anybody else? Monroe is on the case – or seems to think he is. More confusion rains down when Robert’s wife is summoned and doesn’t know what’s going on either; but what she does know is that Robert shouldn’t be anywhere near where he was found and probably with a mistress, whom he definitely shouldn’t be anywhere near. When the mistress turns up, utter confusion is unleashed upon the stage. Is Robert who everybody else says he is? Does he really have amnesia? If he doesn’t then what is he doing with a wife like that in the first place? Is anybody actually who they maintain they are?
Forget-Me-Knot has been described as ‘one of the funniest British farces … with superb laugh-out-loud comedy’. We think you’ll agree!
Apollo-8
Yorktown (CVS-10) was the recovery ship for Apollo-8, the first manned orbital mission to the moon. Launched on the morning of 21 December 1968 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the capsule made ten lunar orbits before returning to earth and splashing down in the Pacific a thousand miles southwest of Hawaii on the morning of the 27th.
The three-man crew of Colonel Frank Borman (USAF), Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. (USN), and Major William Anders (USAF) splashed down in darkness at 4:52am local time (10:52EST)
Less than two hours later at 6:21 the three emerged from a Yorktown Squadron Four, Anti-Submarine SH-3D "Sea King" helicopter to a warm reception on the carrier's flight deck.
At 7:18 the spacecraft was lifted aboard the carrier to be delivered to Hawaii on 29 December.
Among the objectives of the manned Saturn mission were navigation-communication-and mid-course corrections; translunar injection; assessment of consumables and passive thermal control; mission support; and the return of high-resolution pictures of proposed landing sites. All major objectives were accomplished.
Please visit the Patriot's Point Website for more information and PLEASE go VISIT Patriot's Point in Charleston, SC, it is AWESOME!!!
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The USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the United States Navy. Under construction as Bon Homme Richard, this new Essex-class carrier was renames Yorktown in honor of Yorktown (CV-5), sunk at the epic Battle of Midway (June 1942). Built in an amazing 16 ½ months at Newport News, Virginia, Yorktown was commissioned on April 15, 1943. Yorktown participated significantly in the Pacific Offensive that began in late 1943 and ended with the defeat of Japan in 1945. Yorktown received the Presidential Unit Citation and earned 11 battle stars for service in World War II. Much of the Academy Award-winning (1944) documentary "The Fighting Lady" was filmed aboard Yorktown.
In the 1950’s, Yorktown was modified with the addition of and angled deck to better operate jet aircraft in her role as an attack carrier (CVA). In 1958, Yorktown was designated an anti-submarine aircraft carrier (CVS), and would later earn 5 battle stars for service off Vietnam (1965-1968). The ship also recovered the Apollo 8 astronauts and capsule (December 1968). Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and placed in reserve.
In 1975, Yorktown was towed from Bayonne, NJ to Charleston to become the centerpiece of Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum.
In 1943 it held 360 Officers 3000 enlisted (1943) .
Chryselephantine is a term that refers to the sculptural of gold and ivory. Here is the head of the chryselephantine statue that probably represented Apollo. Riveted on the wooden body of the statue were gold or gilded sheets with forged decoration, rendering the clothing, hair, jewelry and other details, whereas the head and nude parts of the body, such as legs and arms were made of ivory. The eyes and eyelids were inlaid. c.550-540 BC , from Delphi
!!STOLEN!! - Please contact me if you see this bike, parts list below.
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It's an Apollo Equipe from the 80's. Lugged HiTen (Steel) frame. It's going to be my touring bike (hence the triple). I have to get some guards and a rack for it, but they can wait.
This was a free bike that I got from an advert on "Freecycle" (not bike specific, it stands for FREE reCYCLE). This is what it looked like when I got it: www.flickr.com/photos/zzpza/3163182697/in/set-72157613819...
I had the frame dipped (to remove paint, stickers and rust), phosphated (anti-rust coating) and then powder coated. Then the following parts were added:
Campagnolo Xenon Hubs
Campagnolo Veloce Cassette
Campagnolo Veloce Triple Crankset
Campagnolo Xenon Ergo Levers
Campagnolo Front Mech
Campagnolo Veloce Cableset
ITM Stem
Deda Drop Bars
Mavic Bar Tape
Mavic Computer
Mavic CXP22 Rims
Vittoria Roma Tyres
Shimano 105 Headset
Shimano Sora Brakeset
Shimano Rear Mech
Shimano SPDs
Shimano Chain
Selle Italia XO Saddle
Powder coating by www.chingfords.co.uk
Apollo Victoria Theatre, London. Distictive art deco lettering on the exits, and, here, the stage door.
London Victoria, Apollo Victoria Theatre
April 2014
"So-called “Apollo Barberini”. The musician god holds in his left arm the “kithara” and in his right one a cup (the right arm and the left front arm were worked separately). Eyeballs in white stone and lashes in bronze (iris and pupils, lost, were made in colored materials). Probable copy of the cult statue in the temple of Apollo Palatinus in Rome (free reproduction of a work from 4th century BC). 1st–2nd century CE."
-Information from Wikimedia
The replica Apollo-era spacesuit in "Suited for Space" really looks like the real thing and includes red and blue, "good" and "bad" air valves, a "gold" visored helmet, and a pair of overshoes. Though these are replicas, there are one of only two pairs of real Apollo overshoes that came back to Earth. Because of weight restrictions on return trips, most of the overshoes and EV helmets were left on the Moon.
The national exhibition tour is generously supported by DuPont.
For more information about this exhibition and to see a tour schedule:
www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/suitedForSpace/inde...
For great interactive content, visit "Suited for Space" on Facebook: www.facebook.com/suitedforspace
Photo by Mark Avino/Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities. Three LRVs were driven on the Moon, one on Apollo 15 by astronauts David Scott and Jim Irwin, one on Apollo 16 by John Young and Charles Duke, and one on Apollo 17 by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle had a mass of 463 lbs and was designed to hold a payload of an additional 1,080 lbs on the lunar surface. The frame was 10 feet long with a wheelbase of 7.5 feet. The maximum height was 3.75 feet. The frame was made of aluminum alloy 2219 tubing welded assemblies and consisted of a 3 part chassis which was hinged in the center so it could be folded up and hung in the Lunar Module quad 1 bay. It had two side-by-side foldable seats made of tubular aluminum with nylon webbing and aluminum floor panels. An armrest was mounted between the seats, and each seat had adjustable footrests and a velcro seatbelt. A large mesh dish antenna was mounted on a mast on the front center of the rover. The suspension consisted of a double horizontal wishbone with upper and lower torsion bars and a damper unit between the chassis and upper wishbone. Fully loaded the LRV had a ground clearance of 14 inches.
The wheels consisted of a spun aluminum hub and an 32 inches diameter, 9 inch wide tire made of zinc coated woven .033 inch diameter steel strands attached to the rim and discs of formed aluminum. Titanium chevrons covered 50% of the contact area to provide traction. Inside the tire was a 25.5 inch diameter bump stop frame to protect the hub. Dust guards were mounted above the wheels. Each wheel had its own electric drive, a DC series wound 0.25 hp motor capable of 10,000 rpm, attached to the wheel via an 80:1 harmonic drive, and a mechanical brake unit. Maneuvering capability was provided through the use of front and rear steering motors. Each series wound DC steering motor was capable of 0.1 hp. Both sets of wheels would turn in opposite directions, giving a steering radius of 10 feet, or could be decoupled so only one set would be used for steering. They could also free-wheel in case of drive failure. Power was provided by two 36-volt silver-zinc potassium hydroxide non-rechargeable batteries with a capacity of 121 A·h. These were used to power the drive and steering motors and also a 36 volt utility outlet mounted on front of the LRV to power the communications relay unit or the TV camera.
A T-shaped hand controller situated between the two seats controlled the four drive motors, two steering motors and brakes. Moving the stick forward powered the LRV forward, left and right turned the vehicle left or right, pulling backwards activated the brakes. Activating a switch on the handle before pulling back would put the LRV into reverse. Pulling the handle all the way back activated a parking brake. The control and display modules were situated in front of the handle and gave information on the speed, heading, pitch, and power and temperature levels.
Navigation was based on continuously recording direction and distance through use of a directional gyro and odometer and inputting this data to a computer which would keep track of the overall direction and distance back to the LM. There was also a Sun-shadow device which could give a manual heading based on the direction of the Sun, using the fact that the Sun moved very slowly in the sky.
Apollo 13 Command Module Odyssey on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchison, KS
Apollo 13 was the third manned lunar-landing mission, part of Project Apollo under the NASA in the United States. It launched on April 11, 1970. Two days after the launch, the Apollo spacecraft was crippled by an explosion, causing the Service Module portion of the Apollo Command/Service Module to lose its oxygen and electrical power. The crew used the Lunar Module as a ?lifeboat? in space. The command module systems remained functional, but were deactivated to preserve its capability to reenter Earth?s atmosphere upon return to the earth. The crew endured difficult conditions due to severe constraints on power, cabin heat, and potable water, but successfully returned to Earth.
Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (gen.: Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun; Latin: Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greco–Roman Neopaganism, and Greek and Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musegetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.
Apollo, the Greek and Roman god of music, poetry, and prophecy, was long worshipped in Pompeii. The temple there dated back about 600 years. Here, he is accompanied by a guardian griffin (part lion, part eagle). The marble statue’s stiff, old-fashioned Greek style could hint to a possible ancient forgery.
The exhibition Pompeii, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec.
Apollo astronauts Vance Brand, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Joe Engle, Charlie Duke, Fred Haise, Jim Lovell, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Tom Stafford, Jim McDivitt and Walt Cunningham gathered in Dayton, Ohio at the National Aviation Hall of Fame’s Spirit of Flight Award ceremony.
(7/17/2010, Photo by Robert Cunningham, PSR News, Int.)
NASA PHOTO: MSFC-6901057. REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.
NASA INFO: Dr. Wernher von Braun, director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight center (MSFC), appears proud as he pauses in front of the mobile launcher and base of the Saturn V rocket (AS-506) being readied for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Saturn V vehicle was developed by MSFC under the direction of Dr. von Braun. The Apollo 11 mission launched from KSC in Florida via the MSFC developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Aboard the space craft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. The CM, “Columbia”, piloted by Collins, remained in a parking orbit around the Moon while the LM, “Eagle’’, carrying astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, landed on the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface, followed by Aldrin. During 2½ hours of surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lunar surface material for analysis back on Earth. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.
IMPORTANT VIDEOS: See also
Wernher Von Braun, documentary, "Missile to the moon", PBS, 2012:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ch0OgkkJKI
and www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjs3nBfyIwM
and www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fautyLuuvo
and www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJOq1NRG9fE
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Apollo 1 is the official name that was retroactively given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27, 1967. The crew aboard were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission: Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. All three died in the fire.
Stan's Café's "Of All The People In All The World" is a show where there is a grain of rice for every person on the planet.
The Apollo 13 command module is hoisted aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima in the South Pacific Ocean, April 17, 1970. The Apollo 13 crew were already aboard the Iwo Jima when this photograph was taken. The command module, with the three tired crew men aboard, splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST) on April 17, about four miles from the Iwo Jima.
Photo credit: NASA
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Decorations I did for our LOST Season Finale Party, May 23, 2010. Apollo Candy Bars! Wrapper art laser-printed, trimmed and fit around Milky Way bars.
Vector art files at: http://thr5.com/lost/
While I was in Geneva for the motorshow, I was following along closely on Instagram to see what cars were out and about in Geneva. Luckily I came across a place called 'Carugati Automobiles' and decided I should head there ASAP and I'm so glad I did as I managed to catch the insane Apollo IE just before it left. Insane day wrapped up with a few Pagani's and various other insane cars!
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The outer skin of the hatch door of Columbia. This was one of the displays at the St. Louis Science Center exhibit.
The Piraeus Apollo (530 – 520 BC) is life-size, our first complete example in a technique which we know had been practiced already for some years in Greece. The kouros type is adapted here for a cult image as it had been on Delos. The style sits uneasily with the Attic series, and the circumstances of its discovery do not demand Attic origin — with some other pieces in the find it may be from Delos. That scholars have thought it archaizing, or a copy of an earlier Archaic marble, is some indication of the problems it poses and of our continuing ignorance of high quality work in the more precious material.
Considering the metalwork, we found the early bronzes cast solid, the originals being probably of wax, coated with a clay mantle to serve as mold. Early in the seventh century the model may be given a core of other material which can be worked out of the final cast, lightening it and saving bronze. The ultimate refinement is to make the core nearly the size of the desired figure, coat it with wax with finished detail to the required thickness of the bronze, then make the clay mantle, fixing it to the core with rods, melting out the wax, pouring in the bronze. This is the technique, still experimental, of the Piraeus kouros which yet encloses the iron skeleton on which the model was built. Its wrists and hands are solid and there is less use of inlay (as for the eyes, a practice well known in marble) than for most later, large bronzes on which a redder copper might be used for lips and nipples. Later too this “lost-wax” technique was refined with the use of piece molds.
Source: John Boardman, “Greek Sculpture – The Archaic Period, a Handbook”
Bronze sculpture
Height 192 cm
High Archaic period
ca. 530 - 520 BC
From Delos [?]
Piraeus - Archaeological Museum
July 20, 1969) One of the first steps taken on the Moon, this is an image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Next door to the Lyric Theatre is the Apollo Theatre, also part of Nimax Theatres. Opened 1901 and designed by Lewen Sharp with H Van Hooydonk. Listed grade 2.
London Apollo Theatre
December 2013
This is the Apollo memorial at Space View Park at Cape Canaveral. We went to watch the STS-124 launch of Shuttle Discovery.
"V.
I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven;
Then with unwilling steps I wander down
Into the clouds of the Atlantic even;
For grief that I depart they weep and frown:
What look is more delightful than the smile
With which I soothe them from the western isle?..."
from "Hymn of Apollo", 1820, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)