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Pima Air and Space Museum
Promotional and inspirational letter sent by NASA to key subcontractor staff working on the Apollo program. Dated 17 March 1965, the letter is significant because it includes original signatures of all 30 Apollo astronauts. Two more recent signatures appear at the bottom including that of Frank Borman who happened to be at Pima Air and Space Museum the day the letter was donated.
Colonel Borman recounted that when the letters were generated, all of the astronauts were required to attend the signing, located in a conference room filled with tables piled high with stacks of letters and fresh pens. Only after the letters were signed were the astronauts allowed to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
Letter courtesy of Rayma-Jean Ritchie, daughter of one of the letter recipients at North American Aviation, builder of the Apollo Command Module.
"Aigai'de Apollon tapınakları için geçerli olan kural değişmiyor. Tıpkı Klaros, Didyma, Smintheion'da olduğu gibi kent dışında kutsal alanı. Demirkapı'dan bakınca doğuda, Kocaçay Vadisi'nde bir düzlük olarak gözüken tapınak alanı doğal olarak su bulunan bir arazide. Buraya Grynaion'dan geldiği sanılan döşeme yolun izlenmesiyle ulaşılabilir. Başka bir tanımla Aigai kentinin nekropolisine yaklaşıldığında doğrudan doğru Kocaçay Vadisi'ne giden yol izlenmeli. Yol üzerinde Hellenistik döneme ilişkin duvarlar ve nekropolisin uzantıları görülüyor.
Aigai'de Apollon'un sanı, "kehanetler gönderen" anlamında "Kheresterios". Ünlü olmasa da bağımsız bir kutsal alan olarak Apollon Khresterios tapınağı önemli. Kocaçay'a adını veren tanrı, gelecekten haberler fısıldıyordu. Tanrıya en eksi saygıyı Bergama Krallarından Philetairos göstermiş. Apollon Khresterios'a adanmış bir yazıtı biliniyor.
Yapını 6X12 sütunlu olduğunu ileri süren Bohn, tarihi hakkında kesin bir ipucu elde etmiş. Proconsul İsauricus'un maddi katkılarıyla yükseltilmiş tapınak, trahit taşından görkemli kalıntıları ile yerli yerinde. Özellikle cellasının kapı sövesi sapasağlam duruyor. Cephesinde basamaklar olan yapı peripteros tipinde, İon düzeninde. Sütunları yaklaşık 7,5 metre yüksekliğinde hesaplanmış. Friz kabartmaları boğa başları ve bitki çelenkleri biçiminde. Arşitravları üzerinde yazıtı bulunuyor. Apollon Khresterios tapınağı Vali Servilius Poplius İsauricus tarafından dikilmiş. Valinin Asya eyaletinde kaldığı dönem İ.Ö. 48 ve 46 yılları. Geç Hellenistik dönemde yapının kurulmasını sağlayan Proconsül'ün bir heykeli tiyatronun üstündeki tapınaklarda durmaktaymış."
Kaynak: Aigai, Aiolis'te Bir Dağ-Kent, Şükrü TÜL, Ege Yayınları, 1995, Sh.35-37
Here is the lower end of the escape rocket of the LES. The body will be white, and tn four nozzles black
Portland Center Stage production: State Department Pieta: State Department official Samuel Klaus (Andy Hirsch) is persuaded by Army Intelligence to approve the visas of the Arthur Rudolph, Wernher von Braun and the other former-Nazi rocket engineers the U.S. smuggled out of Germany after the war in Nancy Keystone's epic world premiere Apollo, playing though February 8th at Portland Center Stage. Tickets, info and more at www.pcs.org/apollo.
Apollo, the black Golden Retriever. His daddy is a beautiful full blood Golden Retriever, and his mom is the sweetest retriever/lab mix.
My BFF just brought him home, so of course we had to photograph bath time!
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The Apollo Victoria Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Wilton Road near Victoria Station in the City of Westminster. Opened as a cinema and variety theatre, the Apollo Victoria became a venue for musical theatre, beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running Starlight Express, from 1984 to 2002. The theatre is now the home of the musical Wicked, which had played seven years at the venue as at September 2013.
Now retired, this very 1960's looking command center is where every Apollo mission was controlled from, and where legendary Flight Directors such as Eugene Krantz spent so many hours. The first words spoken from the surface of the moon were to this very room.
Wyrd Sisters - Dress Rehearsal
Fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series will love Stephen Briggs’ stage adaptation of his novel, The Wyrd Sisters (itself an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth). Everyone else will simply have a ball watching this clever and hilarious take on a classic tale.
9-10 and 13-17 December 2016
Kansas Cosmosphere
Sacrificing the Hasselblads
Along with the Moon rocks, some of the most precious cargo the astronauts returned from the lunar surface were the camera backs removed from their Hasselblad 70-mm cameras. Inside were some of the most famous and profound images ever recorded in history, each image giving photographic testimony to mankind's first exploration of another world.
To save weight and space for their return trip off the Moon, the astronauts discarded their Hasselblad cameras on the lunar surface, returning to Earth with only the camera backs. During the Apollo Program, these film canisters returned nearly 25,000 priceless photographic images, many of which have been forever etched in our collective memory
DISPLAYED HERE are actual Hasselblad film backs returned from each Apollo mission. These special canisters were built by Hasselblad specifically for NASA and each unit contained enough film for 200 exposures. Displayed with each canister are actual photographic images returned to Earth from these specific camera backs.
This 5'' x 2.25'' sticker references the unmanned Apollo 4 test vehicle, the first unmanned test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle in Nov. 1967.
Apollo’s new scuba regulators re-designed to increase performance and comfort, reduce the weight and lower annual service cost. The stainless steel mesh filter of Apollo’s scuba regulators can now be cleaned rather than replaced annually.
Find more about Apollo Regulator on scubaonline.com.au
Some shots from today's dress rehearsal for the presentation startling next week.
As usual a fine job on the lighting by the crew there, making a bit easier.
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Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
Apollo is a lynx snowshoe Siamese available for adoption through NYC Siamese Rescue - nycsiamese.org. This poor fellow, with his siblings, were rescues from an animal collector in Queens, where 70 cats were sharing a one bedroom apartment.
Insignia denoting recovery of five Project Apollo crews emblazoned on the front quarter of a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King.