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I'm doing a 366 project of my dog, Apollo. So there will probably be quite a few uploads of him. I just finished my regular 365 project from last year, and enjoyed it so much, I decided to do one centered around Apollo. haha I know I have no life.
This spacecraft carried astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan to the Moon and back in a final dry run before Apollo 11's lunar landing. On its return to Earth it travelled at 24,790 mph. The fastest speed ever for a crewed vehicle.
The Kitchen Sink
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes
16-17 & 20-24 October 2015
A few images from dress rehearsal for the upcoming presentation of "The Kitchen Sink" at the Apollo in Newport.
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.
Things aren’t going to plan for one family in Pebblesea. Pieces are falling off Martin’s milk float as quickly as he’s losing customers and something’s up with Kath’s kitchen sink. Billy is pinning his hopes of a place at art college on a revealing portrait of Dolly Parton, while Sophie’s dreams of becoming a ju-jitsu teacher might be disappearing down the plughole.
Amid the dreaming, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink?
Some sample shots from the upcoming presentation of "Mindgame" dress rehearsal.
A complex and exciting thriller by the author of ‘Foyle’s War’.
5-6 and 9-13 September 2014
Apollo will occasionally take a reading break during the day. Otherwise, he loves running at full speed and chewing on his toys.
Love this! I'd never seen the carafe before. They were asking $45 for the set, and while that's a good price, I truly have NO space to keep something like this that I'll never really use. They had extras of the glasses though, so I just got a single Apollo 11.
Apollo and Daphne was completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1625, when he was only 27 years old.
It depicts the myth of the nymph Daphne escaping the advances of Apollo by transforming into a laurel tree.
The leaves are so fine that when struck with a tool, the marble makes a sound like crystal glass.
From Ovid's Metamorphoses:
"As Apollo relentlessly chases Daphne—boasting, pleading, and promising everything. When her strength is finally spent she prays to her father Peneus:
"Destroy the beauty that has injured me, or change the body that destroys my life." Before her prayer was ended, torpor seized on all her body, and a thin bark closed around her gentle bosom, and her hair became as moving leaves; her arms were changed to waving branches, and her active feet as clinging roots were fastened to the ground—her face was hidden with encircling leaves.
Even like this Apollo loved her and, placing his hand against the trunk, he felt her heart still quivering under the new bark. He clasped the branches as if they were parts of human arms, and kissed the wood. But even the wood shrank from his kisses, and the god said:
"Since you cannot be my bride, you must be my tree! Laurel, with you my hair will be wreathed, with you my lyre, with you my quiver. You will go with the Roman generals when joyful voices acclaim their triumph, and the Capitol witnesses their long processions. You will stand outside Augustus's doorposts, a faithful guardian, and keep watch over the crown of oak between them. And just as my head with its uncropped hair is always young, so you also will wear the beauty of undying leaves."
Apollo is from the Greek and Roman mythology period and is known to be the god of light and sun.
Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo
BRAND NEW COLOR! "Soviet Red Edition" - A second in our Rocket Science line: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. (Eksperimantalniy polyot Soyuz-Apollon). A symbolic end to the cold war space race, the US and Soviet ships docked for the first time, July 17, 1975.
Left to right, James Irwin, LM Pilot, David Scott, Commander and Alfred Worden, Command Module Pilot
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Sitzfragment aus der Apollo 13 Kapsel. Ausgeschnitten aus dem Sitz von Apollo 13 Kommandant James Lovell.
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 is our first use of our new Mountain Equipment Co-op Apollo tent at the Manatee Hammock Campground in Titusville, Florida. Across the river you can see the lights of the Kennedy Space Center, including the giant vehicle assembly building, where the Apollo moon rockets were put together.
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 airstream trailer was used as a decontamination chamber for returning Apollo program astronauts.
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it terrified the United States. The nation had already been moving towards launching satellites, but it had been going slowly, and the fact that the USSR was ahead was a shock. Nor would it get any better: in 1961, the Soviets put Yuri Gagarin into orbit on Vostok 1. Even as the US struggled to catch up, it seemed like the Soviets owned space: a Russian orbited first, made the first rendezvous, put the first woman in space, made the first spacewalk. With the Cold War at one of its peaks, something had to be done. President John F. Kennedy put the challenge to both NASA and the American people: beat the Soviets to the Moon.
This task had to be done in steps. First came Project Mercury, which was to get single-man capsules into space at all. Then Gemini got two astronauts up at a time and practiced long duration flights and rendezvous in space. Apollo, with three-man spacecraft, would get men to the Moon. The technical challenges alone, just for Apollo, were staggering: how to get there, how to put astronauts on the Moon safely, and how to get them home. Eventually, NASA settled on a three-part spacecraft: the command module (CM) that would carry the three astronauts into orbit and home; the service module (SM) that held fuel and oxygen; and the lunar module (LM) that would take two of the three down to the Moon's surface and back. All three would be "stacked" atop a Saturn V rocket, the most powerful rocket ever constructed. Of the gigantic structure, only the CM would actually return home.
Before the Apollo program actually got to the Moon, however, there was going to be a lot of testing--especially after the Apollo 1 fire took the lives of three astronauts. NASA took each step at a time, sending up unmanned missions to test equipment (Apollo 4 through 6), then a manned mission (Apollo 7). Apollo 8 was originally supposed to be another test mission, but circumstances intervened: the LM was behind schedule, morale at NASA was declining because of the delays, and there was a real fear that the Soviets would still win the Space Race. In the end, Apollo 8 went to the Moon without the LM, in a successful effort to be the first men to reach it, if not land on it. As a result, the tests for Apollo 8 were moved to Apollo 9.
The Apollo 9 crew consisted of James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart; aside from the latter, the other two men had flown in space with Gemini. The crew was asked if they wanted to take Apollo 8, since they were next on the crew rotation and it would make them the first human beings to go to the Moon. However, the crew felt that their training was for testing the LM, so they would be better suited to Apollo 9.
Apollo 9 was launched on 3 March 1969, and though it would go no further than low Earth orbit, it would perform the vital tests of if the LM could function. Scott and Schweickart would separate the LM from the CM, fly alongside, and practice docking with the CM, both functions that would have to be performed at the Moon. Schweickart would also test the backpack life support system for Moon astronauts and perform a spacewalk. Finally, the LM's descent engine would be tested to see if it could propel the "stack" of the LM, CM, and SM.
The mission went nearly perfectly. All the tests were performed, and the LM proved it was ready for the Moon, with Scott and Schweickart flying it over 100 miles away from the CM before redocking. The only incident that marred Apollo 9 was Schweickart kept getting nauseated, which at the time worried NASA scientists (and likely led to Schweickart never going into space again); it is now known that spatial disorentation in space is a common and temporary phenomenon. Once the tests were complete, the LM was jettisoned and the three astronauts remained in space for another five days, conducting photographic experiments more or less at their leisure, returning to Earth on 13 March. The success of Apollo 9 meant that Apollo 10, the "dress rehearsal" at the Moon, could go forward, which in turn led to Apollo 11 making the successful landing in July 1969.
Once cleared for display, Apollo 9's CM--nicknamed "Gumdrop" for its shape (the LM had been nicknamed "Spider")--was placed on display at the Michigan Space and Science Center, but when that museum closed in 2004, it was moved to the San Diego Air and Space Museum.
Apollo 9 marked the fifth of six Apollo modules I've been able to see--Apollos 8, 9, 11, 13, and 15, plus Apollo-Soyuz the next day in Los Angeles. I was surprised to see how shiny Apollo 9 was to other Apollos I've seen, and thought maybe the museum had cleaned it up for display--but no, it really was this shiny when it splashed down.
Apollo of Ternopil
Inventory no.: 002208-AP1988
Object: double bladed safety razor
Manufactured: Merscheid, Germany
Manu./Type: Friedrich Herkenrath / Apollo, Drall / Gillette
Weight: 0.028 kg
Found: Ternopil , Ukraine 1988
An obejct used for keeping double edged razor blade. The steel blade can be fixed to the stainless clamp by twisting the plastic handle. The object does not involve the risk of immediate danger of accidents since the sharp surfaces stand out of the blade keeper in the slightest degree.
From the first night I walked into Chi Chiz's Apollo, accepted me and every night after I was "ok", "she's cool, she's with Apollo" was what I heard constantly as I walked the block with my camera. Apollo, a self described "male escort" has been "working the streets" since he was 16, he is 25 years old.
Kansas Cosmosphere
[The displays says this is Magazine K, but the sticker on the side says Mag L]
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.
Apollo of Bruxelles.
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Inventory no.: 002041-AP1985 .
Object: steel spanner .
Manufactured: Kingston, USA .
Manu./Type: Apollo Steel / Apollo .
Found: Bruxelles, Belgium 1991 .
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The „star-wrench” spanner is necessary for engineering tasks, service tasks or home improvement activities, and is used for tightening or loosening soluble bindings of 20mm, hexagon screws. On the handle of the cast steel tool an English label refers to the brand name and function.
Light ratio: red(660nm,630nm):blue(44.nm.470nm):orange(610nm)
This is the customer's feedback. He told me it is efficient than 1watt LED grow light.
Face to Face
Some random images from the Gala Night at the Apollo with the unveiling of the "Faces of Olivier"
The Apollo Fountain
A fountain (the Swans Fountain) already existed her from 1636, under the reign of Louis XIII, which Louis XIV decorated with the impressive and celebrated group in gilded lead representing Apollo on his chariot. The work of Tuby, after a drawing by Le Brun, it is inspired by the legend of Apollo, the Sun gold and emblem of the king. Tuby produced this monumental group between 1668 and 1670 at the Manufacture des Gobelins, and it was then transported to Versailles and installed and gilded the following year.