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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
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."
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.
Here's the Command Module all ready for paint. The "scimitar" antennas are glued on (the wrong place for the final Apollos, but I'm going for the conceptual look) and all the opennings are covered.
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.
Dallas Haugen breaks away early in the first period during Thursday's game at the St. Cloud Municipal Athletic Center.
Life support system for the Apollo lunar module that carried two astronauts to and from the surface of the Moon.
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Faces of faces
Some random images from the Gala Night at the Apollo with the unveiling of the "Faces of Olivier"
As my morning coffee brewed, I slipped on my shoes and jacket, grabbed the Nikon, and headed out the door to see what the moon was looking like.
I'm no astronomer, but as near as I can tell, X marks the approximate spot where the Apollo 12 Lunar Landing Module set down on November 19, 1969. The landing area is known as Oceanus Procellarum, or the "Ocean of Storms". And it seems the flag that was set that day is still standing today, just short of 55 years later.
I just found that interesting.
Image was cropped only, as well as adding the flag and text in post processing. No other editing to the image was done.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12
www.celestron.com/blogs/news/can-we-see-the-american-flag....
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Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. This exhibit portrays the US docking link between the two spacecrafts.
"Corridors of Power..."
Some random images from the Gala Night at the Apollo with the unveiling of the "Faces of Olivier"
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Apolo Licio, copia romana antiga d'un original grec del segle IV a. C. Es troba al Museu del Louvre, a París.
"Entrances and Exits..."
Some random images from the Gala Night at the Apollo with the unveiling of the "Faces of Olivier"
Inside the Saturn V Center visitors are presented with an array of exhibits from the Saturn and Apollo missions. Walking round the giant Saturn V rocket, laid out on its side, was surreal and yet the tiny Apollo XXIV Command Module - spot-lit, just beyond a low fence - was very real. The setting, against the pitch black backdrop, somehow made imagining being inside it out in space very easy.
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."