Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

Zeus made her choose between them, and she chose Idas on the grounds that Apollo, being immortal, would tire of her when she grew old.

Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future, with a curse that she could only see the future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.

Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer, and caused them to become the ears of a donkey.

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.

It became clear that managing the Apollo program would exceed the capabilities of Robert Gilruth's Space Task Group, which had been directing the nation's manned space program from NASA's Langley Research Center.

It also became clear that Apollo would outgrow the Canaveral launch facilities in Florida.

The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster.

However, after the cancellations of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were finalized in September 1970 it meant that this crew would not rotate to a lunar mission as planned.

They had hoped that scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would confirm their suspicion.

The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would be beneficial for the network of geophysical instruments, portions of which were deployed on each Apollo expedition beginning with Apollo 12.

In preparation for their mission, the Apollo 16 astronauts participated in an extensive training program that included, among other things, several field geology trips to introduce the astronauts to concepts and techniques they would eventually use on the lunar surface.

Apollo 16 would spend one less day in lunar orbit after surface exploration had been completed to afford the crew contingency time to compensate for any further problems and to conserve expendables.

Hereupon Apollo prophesied that Troy would fall through the hands of Aeacus's descendants, the Aeacidae.

When Cassandra of Troy told him she wanted to stay a virgin, Apollo placed a curse on her so that she and all her descendants ' predictions would not be believed.

Intoxicated by the vapors, the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit.

Apollo Cunomaglus may have been a god of healing.

All these functions, including the function of the healer-god Paean, who seems to have Mycenean origin, are fused in the cult of Apollo.

In cult practice, Delian Apollo and Pythian Apollo ( the Apollo of Delphi ) were so distinct that they might both have shrines in the same locality.

The Hieron ( Sanctuary ) of Apollo adjacent to the Sacred Lake, was the place where the god was said to have been born.

Was believed to have been founded by Branchus, son or lover of Apollo.

* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.

Zeus intervened and, claiming to have seen the events, sided with Apollo.

Mueller accepted, on the condition that he have a say in NASA reorganization necessary to effectively administer Apollo.

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

Geologists feared, however, that samples obtained from the crater might have been contaminated by the Imbrium impact, thus preventing Apollo 16 from obtaining samples of pre-Imbrium material.

Additionally, there have been fictional astronauts in film, literature and television who have been described as " the last man to walk on the Moon ", implying they were crew members on Apollo 17.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.

These pools and baths were said to have magical powers, and imparted the ability to communicate to Apollo himself.

Diana was believed to have loved and ruled with her brother Apollo, the god of the Sun.

Antioch was a city favored by splendid temples along with a famous oracle of Apollo in nearby Daphne, which may have been cause for him choosing to reside there.

Later the SWS and ATM were folded into the Apollo Applications Program, but the components were to have been launched separately, then docked together in orbit.

Apollo would not suffer such a depraved pair of ears any longer, and said ," Must have ears of an ass!

Hypotheses have been proposed regarding its relationship with the Muses, the gods Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Apollo, and the hero Perseus.

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.

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

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.

The palm tree was also sacred to Apollo because he had been born under one in Delos.

Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.

Apollo 14 had visited and sampled a ridge of material that had been ejected by the impact that created the Imbrium impact basin.

There also remained the distinct possibility that this objective had already been satisfied by the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 missions, as the Apollo 14 samples had not yet been completely analyzed and samples from Apollo 15 had not yet been obtained.