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The Apollo Walk signage gives you lots of interesting information and guides you around the old site of te Honeysuckle Creek tracking station.
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station (or HSK as it was also known) was an important part of NASA’s tracking network between 1967 and 1981 and its main parabolic antenna (DSS-46) ended up being responsible for capturing and then transmitting to the world the images of Neil Armstrongs first steps on the moon.
For info on Honeysuckle Creek and other NASA facilities in Australia, visit the brilliant Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station web site.
We took a tour of the Vatican, and when I got home I realized that the only things I took pictures of in the Vatican City were Greek statues. (Note: I almost broke this pattern by taking a picture of Cleopatra's bathtub, but there were too many people in the way.)
This is Apollo, and like many other statues that we saw on this trip, Apollo has had his penis removed.
This graphite study shows an arm in the stretched position of the first version of Apollo. But the movement to the back was the point of transition to the final version.1989-91.
Edited image of the launch of Apollo 6 (which was unmanned) on 4 April 1968. Images of Apollo 6 are relatively easy to distinguish from other Apollo missions: it was the only Apollo CSM that was white, not silver.
Image source: Wikipedia
Life support system for the Apollo lunar module that carried two astronauts to and from the surface of the Moon.
Here's the hatch of the Apollo command module. This hatch was used not only to board the craft before launch, but also to exit the craft during spacewalks. After the Apollo fire it was redesigned to be opened in 3 seconds flat.
The twins Apollo and Artemis were the children of Zeus and Leto. Jealous Hera pursued her rival relentlessly until finally the small and inhospitable island of Delos took pity on Leto, then in an advanced state of pregnancy, and allowed her to give birth to her children there.
1963 Apollo Sports Car. learn more about this car here: www.examiner.com/classic-car-in-oakland/apollo-sports-car...
This statue of Apollo was given to the hospital by the Honorable Edward Everett in 1845. I'm not quite clear what he's supposed to be holding. Just out of the shot, by the way, is his very modest little fig leaf codpiece.
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 15 selected photos of interesting specimen rocks on Moon's surface. I enhanced these original photos for clarity - some are rotated. Original photo credit NASA.
Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo) photographed on the Baltic coast in Södermanland, Sweden.
Photo by James Owen - jamesowen@tiscali.co.uk
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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Great waves at Apollo Bay and only 3 surfers out there.
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