* 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 ( James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart ) to test the lunar module.

* March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

* November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.

* Chaffee Hill, 14. 3 km ( 8. 9 mi ) south-southwest of Columbia Memorial Station on Mars, part of the Apollo 1 Hills.

For the Rome premiere on 9 February 1868 at the Teatro Apollo, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Papal censor changed the Inquisitor into a Gran Cancelliere ( Grand Chancellor ) and the Monk / Emperor into a Solitario ( Recluse ).

The Apollo TV cameras used SSTV to transmit images from inside Apollo 7, Apollo 8, and Apollo 9, as well as the Apollo 11 Lunar Module television from the Moon.

However, the first significant cases were in early Apollo flights ; Frank Borman on Apollo 8 and Rusty Schweickart on Apollo 9.

The man who would do this, King Admetus, was helped by Apollo, who had been banished from Olympus for 9 years to serve as a shepherd to Admetus.

Borman was then reassigned to his LM test mission, now planned to fly as " Apollo 9 " in early 1969 after a first, low Earth orbit LM flight commanded by McDivitt in December 1968.

But the LM was not ready for its first flight, leading NASA management to decide to replace Borman's mission with a lunar orbit flight using just the Command / Service Module as Apollo 8 in December, making McDivitt's flight Apollo 9 in March 1969.

* Apollo 9 – 3 March 1969 – Manned lunar lander ( LEM ) flight test

Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god.

As Artemis's twin, Apollo had the epithet Didymaeus ( ; Διδυμαιος, Didumaios, from δίδυμος, " twin ").

Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.

As a protector and founder, Apollo had the epithets Alexicacus ( ; Ἀλεξίκακος, Alexikakos, literally " warding off evil "), Apotropaeus ( ; Ἀποτρόπαιος, Apotropaios, from ἀποτρέπειν, " to avert "), and Epicurius ( ; Ἐπικούριος, Epikourios, from ἐπικουρέειν, " to aid "), and Archegetes ( ; Ἀρχηγέτης, Arkhēgetēs, literally " founder "), Clarius ( ; Κλάριος, Klārios, from Doric κλάρος, " allotted lot "), and Genetor ( ; Γενέτωρ, Genetōr, literally " ancestor ").

In his role as god of prophecy and truth, Apollo had the epithets Manticus ( ; Μαντικός, Mantikos, literally " prophetic "), Leschenorius ( ; Λεσχηνόριος, Leskhēnorios, from λεσχήνωρ, " converser "), and Loxias ( ; Λοξίας, Loxias, from λέγειν, " to say ").

As god of music and arts, Apollo had the epithet Musagetes ( ; Doric Μουσαγέτας, Mousāgetās ) or Musegetes ( ; Μουσηγέτης, Mousēgetēs, from Μούσα, " Muse ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ").

Apollo Vindonnus had a temple at Essarois, near Châtillon-sur-Seine in Burgundy.

It was in this way that Apollo had become recognised as the god of music.

Unusually among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi.

Apollo had a famous oracle in Delphi, and other notable ones in Clarus and Branchidae.

* In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo ; Oropus also had a sacred spring.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

Daphne was a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, who had scorned Apollo.

By Cyrene, Apollo had a son named Aristaeus, who became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping.

Hecuba, was the wife of King Priam of Troy, and Apollo had a son with her named Troilus.

When he found out the truth he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis ( in other stories, Apollo himself had killed Coronis ).

Acantha, was the spirit of the acanthus tree, and Apollo had one of his other liaisons with her.

Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim.

In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

Scott stands in the open hatch of the Apollo 9 command module Gumdrop.

The Apollo 9 Command module was nicknamed " Gumdrop " — not only did it have the appropriate stumpy cone shape, but it arrived at Cape Kennedy in a blue cellophane wrapper.

* Apollo 9 command module " Gumdrop "

Climb the steps from the theatre to the Via Della Tribuna Di Campitelli for an even better view of the Columns of Apollo.

Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo.

A Luwian etymology suggested for Apaliunas makes Apollo " The One of Entrapment ", perhaps in the sense of " Hunter ".

An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as god of healing and, possibly, of physicians.

To protect his mother, Apollo begged Hephaestus for a bow and arrows.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.

Following a spirited chase by Apollo, Daphne prays to her father, Peneus, for help, and he changes her into the laurel tree, sacred to Apollo.

Clytia, jealous of her sister because she wanted Apollo for herself, told Orchamus the truth, betraying her sister's trust and confidence in her.

Apollo refused to forgive Clytia for betraying his beloved, and a grieving Clytia wilted and slowly died.

Apollo then killed him for what he did.

Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre.

Another contender for the birthplace of Apollo is the Cretan islands of Paximadia.

Apollo flayed Marsyas alive in a cave near Celaenae in Phrygia for his hubris to challenge a god.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

This type served certain religious needs and was first proposed for what was previously thought to be depictions of Apollo.

The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

* In the Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from the corpse of Sarpedon and anoints it with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike return to Sarpedon's native Lycia.