The name also honored Endeavour, the Command Module of Apollo 15, itself also named after Cook's ship.

As the Oracle of Delphi was sacred to the god Apollo, so did the mountain itself become associated with Apollo.

In Nietzsche's words, " Wherever the Dionysian prevailed, the Apollonian was checked and destroyed .... wherever the first Dionysian onslaught was successfully withstood, the authority and majesty of the Delphic god Apollo exhibited itself as more rigid and menacing than ever.

Based in Chelmsford, Apollo was less than a year old and had only announced itself to the public a few weeks prior to when the founders of Mentor Graphics began their initial meetings.

The Oval Office has become associated in Americans ' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and daughter Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten President Jimmy Carter's day.

Copernicus itself was a possible landing site for the canceled Apollo 20 mission.

Boris Rybakov compared Hors and Dažbog to Helios and Apollo, respectively, concluding that both of them were solar gods, but while Hors represented the Sun itself, Dažbog, as deus dator, rather symbolised the life-giving power of the Sun.

In Ancient Thebes, the altar dedicated to Apollo was known as " Apollo of the Ashes " not only because the altar itself was composed of the ashes of human sacrificial victims but because ashes blowing off the altar could be divined for their portents.

Realizing his nation's poor strategic position, Admiral Thomas Theisman of Haven resolves to launch one final massive, desperate strike on the Manticore system itself, hoping to end the war before Apollo can be widely distributed in the field to all units by the Royal Manticoran Navy.

Gore hoped not only to advance science with these images, but also to raise awareness of the Earth itself, updating the influential The Blue Marble photograph taken by Apollo 17.

NCL itself is jointly owned by Star Cruises ( a public company partially owned by the Genting Group based in Malaysia ) and Apollo Management, with both companies owning 50 % of NCL.

First the S-IVB would boost itself and the Apollo CSM on a trajectory that would pass by Venus and return to Earth, then any remaining fuel would be vented to space, after which the astronauts would live in the empty fuel tanks until they separated from the S-IVB shortly before reentry on their return to Earth.

* In Side ; the town itself, Seleucia ( Pamphylia ), a temple of Athena and another of Apollo.

Adonis was the second Apollo asteroid to be discovered ( after 1862 Apollo itself ).

The episode ended with the Ferrari FXX in first place on the board, thrashing the previous record ( at that time ) of 1 minute 17. 1 seconds which was held by a Gumpert Apollo S. However, the record was removed from the power board by the production team the following week, after they realized the lap was completed on slick racing tires, which are not road-legal and that the car itself could not clear speed bumps ( all cars on the board must be legal for street use ).

During the battle, an AI copy of Henry Bendix activates in response and proceeds to release zombie-like clones of his secret Stormwatch team ( including copies of Apollo and Midnighter ), seduce Rose Tattoo to his side yet again and install itself in a younger cloned body which has been engineered with the powers and abilities of every superhuman present.

The " Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report " said that most of the measurements of gas made by the spectrometer were actually caused by the spacecraft itself.

The title of the episode itself is a reference to the quote " The Eagle has landed " said by astronaut Neil Armstrong when he and Buzz Aldrin immediately touched down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.

* November 14, 1969: Apollo 12 Thirty-six-and-a-half seconds after lift-off, the vehicle triggered a lightning discharge through itself and down to the earth through the Saturn V's ionized plume.

One of the key companies that contributed was Apollo Computer, who brought in NCA-" Network Computing Architecture " which became Network Computing System ( NCS ) and then a major part of DCE / RPC itself.

Apollo Computer brought in NCA-" Network Computing Architecture " which became Network Computing System ( NCS ) and then a major part of DCE / RPC itself.

The ideal of the kouros ( a beardless, athletic youth ), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The Vedic Rudra has some similar functions with Apollo.

A non-Greek origin of Apollo has long been assumed in scholarship.

Apollo promises to protect Orestes, as Orestes has become Apollo's supplicant.

Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

Apollo was the immortal god of ideal balance and order ; his shrine in Delphi has the inscription: " Nothing in excess ".

Apollo has often featured in postclassical art and literature.

From Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, it appears that she has made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath: though she has retained the power of foresight, no one will believe her predictions.

No trace of it has been found, but the location of the stadium and some remnants of retaining walls lead to the conclusion that is was set on a plain apart from the main part of the city and well away from the Peribolos of Apollo.

The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth ( such as the International Space Station ), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration ( commonly known as moonwalks ) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.

It shows that he has paid his penance for his blood crimes, as well as come to integrate the balancing powers to his early over-reliance upon Apollo, the god of the individual, the sun, and reason.

It shows that he has paid his penance for his blood crimes, as well as come to integrate the balancing powers to his early over-reliance upon Apollo, the god of the individual, the sun, and reason.

After Patroclus has routed the Trojan army, Hector, with the aid of Apollo and Euphorbus, kills Patroclus, vaunting over him:

No horse since Apollo in 1882 has won the Derby without having raced at age two.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

Single-stage-to-orbit has been achieved from the Moon by both the Apollo program's Lunar Module and several robotic spacecraft of the Soviet Luna programme ; the lower lunar gravity and absence of any significant atmosphere makes this much easier than from Earth.

The newspaper has to publicly take it all back later on July 17 1969 when the Apollo crew is on its trek to the Moon.

1296 – 1272 ) makes a treaty with Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander ), king of Wilusa ( Ilium ); and another document has Wilusa swearing by Appaliuna ( Apollo ).

Experience has shown the greatest chance of exposure occurs near the gravitational field of a moon or planet, so these were first employed on the Apollo lunar EVA suits ( see American suit models below ).

Most of the research effort to date has centered on Earth atmosphere entry configurations ( Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle ), planetary entry designs ( Viking, Pioneer Venus, Galileo and MSL ), and aerobraking ( AFE ) configurations.

The moon, as another extraterrestrial body that has not undergone plate tectonics and that has no atmosphere, provides quite precise age dates from the samples returned from the Apollo missions.