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Photos of Apollo Pavilion by Victor Pasmore in Peterlee, County Durham, England.
Find out more about Apollo Pavilion at Picnicin.com/apollo_pavilion/
These photos were taken for /Picnicin.com and are given away as CC0 for you to enjoy.
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 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."
Andy Allwright back in 2006 with a young family member. Without Andy's amazing help we would have never competed at "Attack of Danger Bay" so a massive thank you to all at On Shore Boards in Vancouver Canada. Chaeck out what we do at APOLLO 11 through our web site and online longboard shop: www.apollo11shop.co.uk
Apollo has discovered the joy of destuffing toys. He's really good about not touching any toys we haven't given him.
Apollo is a large wedge-shaped heavyweight robot armed with a pneumatic flipper, built by Team MAD. Named and themed after the NASA space programme of the same name, it won the first series of the rebooted Robot Wars, and regularly attends live events organised by Robots Live!
Taken at the Robots Live! event in Stevenage, on 23rd September 2018.
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.
Dave Scott's space suit. Scott was the commander of Apollo 15, which landed on the Moon in 1971. At display on the National Air and Space Museum. Washington DC, USA.
Original photo is by NASA and is found online at Lunar Atlas site of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston Texas. Their description provided of sample 65326 is as follows:
Moderately coherent cataclastic anorthosite; has a "bronze colored" streak.
I enhanced the original poor quality photo to bring out the details of the specimen. the bronze streak is same as in my specimens.
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Apollo 13, famous for its 13-ball multiball, which is so startling and funny that I laughed out loud when it happened to me.
The Apollo (Diptych) by artist Sanford Biggers on the Washington Street Entrance of the Newark Museum
Life support system for the Apollo lunar module that carried two astronauts to and from the surface of the Moon.
Head of a young male worshipper or deity (‘the Chatsworth Apollo’), 460–450 BC
Sanctuary of Apollo–Reshef, Tamassos, Cyprus
Bronze
[One of two heads] found in Cyprus, one of the territories where Greek and Persian influences blended alongside Phoenician and other local cultures. The stone head has a Persian-style beard and ringlets but it also wears a Greek-style wreath.
The bronze head is probably the Greek god Apollo, but could also be the deity Reshef, who was worshipped in Cyprus with the same imagery.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Musem
A mockup of the spacecraft that docked as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 1975. The National Air and Space Museum is a pilgrimage I've wanted to do for about 35 years now.
That's one happy bunny-thing. Thingo. I dunno what it is. I think it looks a lot like the Mimichi tamagotchi character (or perhaps that should be the other way around).
Statue of Apollo. Pentelic marble.
Found in Athens, at the Theater of Dionysos.
Known as the "Omphalos Apollo", it was named after a base in the shape of omphalos, with which it was originally associated.
Work of the 2nd century A.D. copying a bronze original sculpted in 460-450 BC. by a competent sculptor of the Severe Style, possibly Kalamis
→ The National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, has a wonderful sculpture collection with around a thousand of the museum's 16,000 sculptures on permanent display. Exceptional highlights include the korai and kouroi sculptures from the archaic period and the rare large bronze sculptures from the classical and Hellenistic periods.
The Cadillac of steak sandwiches.
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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."
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.