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Apollo and used
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 magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.
Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions of the myth, a number of the Niobids were spared ( Chloris, usually ).
Apollo / Saturn vehicles were also used for an Apollo Applications program which consisted of three Skylab space station missions in 1973 – 74.
Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions two of the Niobids were spared, one boy and one girl.
SSI ICs, such as the ones used in the Apollo guidance computer, usually contained up to a few score transistors.
The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.
The Vehicle Assembly Building was originally built to assembly of Apollo and Saturn vehicles and is now used to support Space Shuttle operations.
Armstrong's FM system was used for communications between NASA and the Apollo program astronauts.
Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.
The US was well behind the Soviet Union in the Space Race, so President Kennedy increased the stakes with the Apollo Program, which used Saturn rocket technology that had been funded by Eisenhower.
It was first used on the Apollo program where the returning spacecraft did not enter Earth orbit
During this time period NASA used joysticks as control devices as part of the Apollo missions.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17 ) during 1971 and 1972.
In early planning for the Apollo Program, it had been assumed that two Saturn V launch vehicles would be used for each lunar mission: one for sending the crew aboard a Lunar Surface Module ( LSM ) to lunar orbit, landing, and returning, and a second for sending an LSM-Truck ( LSM-T ) with all of the equipment, supplies, and transport vehicle for use by the crew while on the surface.
The plan involves several launches making use of heavy-lift boosters of similar size to the Saturn V used for the Apollo missions, which would potentially be derived from Space Shuttle components.
The 68000 became the dominant CPU for Unix based workstations including Sun workstations and Apollo / Domain workstations, found its way into heralded computers such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, and was used in the first generation of desktop laser printers including the original Apple Inc. LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet.
At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.
* Orion, the Apollo Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
* Unified S-Band, a communication system used in the Apollo program of manned spaceflight
During this time Grissom invented the multi-axis translation thruster controller used to push the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft in linear directions for rendezvous and docking.

Apollo and Saturn
* Apollo / Saturn V Development Apollo 11 Launch ApolloTV. net Video
NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.
image: Apollo 17 The Last Moon Shot Edit1. jpg | The Apollo 17 Saturn V awaits launch.
Launch of Apollo 15 Saturn V rocket: T-30 s through T + 40 s.
* 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
The complex also includes the separate Apollo / Saturn V Center, north of the VAB and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, six miles west near Titusville.
Its two major components, the Saturn Workshop and the Apollo Telescope Mount, began their development as separate projects ( the SWS was kludged from the S-IVB stage of the Saturn 1B and Saturn V launch vehicles, the ATM was kludged from an early design for the descent stage of the Apollo Lunar Module ).
With pressure from Congress to hold down Apollo costs, Saturn V production was reduced, allowing only a single booster per mission.

Apollo and family
It then passed to the Barberini family collection ( which also included sculptures such as the Barberini Faun and Barberini Apollo ) where it remained for some two hundred years, being one of the treasures of Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ).
In Bacchylides ' ode, composed for Hiero of Syracuse, who won the chariot race at Olympia in 468, Croesus with his wife and family mounted the funeral pyre, but before the flames could envelop the king, he was snatched up by Apollo and spirited away to the Hyperboreans.
Zeus and Apollo, out of pity for the grieving family, transformed the members into birds.
Granted the gift of prophecy by Apollo, he founded the Iamidae, a family of priests from Olympia.
This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.
In what would be called the Apollo Program, the primary mission of MSFC was developing the heavy-lift rockets – the Saturn family.
Eight large paintings were placed in gilded frames above the stone pediments and busts, including three of the Stuart and French Royal family, one executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Lord Burlington and his sisters, and popular mythological scenes such as " Daphne and Apollo " and " The Judgment of Paris " Twelve antique busts of Roman and Greek figures, such as Emperors, poets, politicians and generals were also positioned on gilded brackets designed by Lord Burlington ..
Determined to rectify his boxing career's only blemish, Apollo ignores all pleas by his friends and family to move on to other potential opponents and demands his team do whatever necessary to goad Rocky out of retirement and into a rematch.
Simon also performed several concerts during the 2004 holiday season at Harlem's Apollo Theater, along with BeBe Winans, son Ben and daughter Sally, Rob Thomas, Livingston Taylor, Mindy Jostyn and Kate Taylor, along with other members of the Taylor and Simon family.
In the 1960s the magazine was filled with color photos of movie stars, President John F. Kennedy and his family, the war in Vietnam, and the Apollo program.
Nicander of Colophon ( Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος, 2nd century BC ), Greek poet, physician and grammarian, was born at Claros, ( Ahmetbeyli, Izmir in modern Turkey ), near Colophon, where his family held the hereditary priesthood of Apollo.
SA-1 was the first Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program.
Many other fast-food restaurants and family restaurants in the region, such as Carl's Jr, Crown Burgers, Apollo Burger, Astro Burger and Hires Big H, also offer their own versions of the sauce.
The family musical ensemble are pictured on their barge, Apollo, with All Saints Church, Fulham in the background.
They all played musical instruments as a family orchestra, giving concerts at William's house in Mincing Lane and later in the family sailing barge, Apollo, which was moored at the Bishop of London's steps in Fulham, near William's country home, Fulham House.
He started kindergarten while at Apollo Bay, and his first year at school came when the family was back at Euroa.
The Clouded Apollo ( Parnassius mnemosyne ) is a butterfly species of the family of Swallowtail butterflies ( Papilionidae ) found in Eurasia.
A family of simple resistor – transistor logic integrated circuits was developed at Fairchild Semiconductor for the Apollo Guidance Computer in 1962.
The facade is decorated with statues of Mars, Minerva, Apollo, Diana, Hercules, Perseus, and the coat of arms of the Bánffy family with gryphons, without crown.
; Apollo: A robust implementation of the OASIS WS-ResourceFramework ( WSRF ) family of specifications
The Apollo or Mountain Apollo ( Parnassius apollo ), is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family.

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