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Apollo with cithara and quiver. Fragment of a wall painting from the House of Augustus. Antiquario del Palatino
Apollo 5000 GT - A continuing project by the Auto Tech & Body Repair students at Poway High School - Concorso Italiano 2013 Monterey CA
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I've been trying for some time to get a decent picture of the moon.
This is probably my best to date. Problem is, is that the picture is a bit pixalated in that I was nearly at maximum digital zoom.
Michelangelo. Apollo-David. c. 1525-1550. Bargello Museum, Florence (photo from the exhibition in the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders
To beat the Soviets to the moon, NASA changed Apollo 8's mission from orbiting the earth to orbiting the moon. They launched on December 21st and made this telecast from around the moon on Christmas Eve.
On a photography note, Apollo 8 was the first mission where a photo of the whole earth was able to be taken. The most famous was Earth Rise
The second of the twin archers, the god of the sun and medicine also invented music (I'm thinking specifically the acoustic/indie genre, but that's just me.)
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.
The newly built Apollo Theater located underneath the Rhine bridge (Rheinkniebrücke).
3exp handheld HDR, tone-mapped in Photomatix
This was at Steve's wedding (check him out in my stream) and Apollo was playing the guitar and singing. Love it when people like to pose.
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.
View of the backpack (with life support equipment, radio, etc.) worn by Apollo astronauts while walking on the Moon.
statue of Apollo at the Getty Villa. Thought the motion blur of the guy walking added a nice touch to it.
Life support system for the Apollo lunar module that carried two astronauts to and from the surface of the Moon.
Faces of faces
Some random images from the Gala Night at the Apollo with the unveiling of the "Faces of Olivier"
John Donowell's Cockpit Arch (1761) and Nicholas Revett's Apollo Belvedere Niche (1770s). West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, UK. Pevsner, et al., Buckinghamshire, pp. 733.
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.