A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon
: The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology, Arthur Cotterell, Oxford University Press, 1986 He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; Webster's College Dictionary, Random House, 2001 and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more
An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU
The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more
Greek Sun God, has a famous statue at Delphi engraved with the words "Man Know thy self"
(also known as Helios, Helius, Hyperion, and Phoebus) The sun god, child of Zeus and Leto who was raised by Posidon in order to avoid Hera His sister was Artemis, the godess of the Hunt He specialised in medicine, music, and poetry He created Colossus
Name given to the United States manned Lunar program, which included the first successful landing of a human crew on the Moon (Apollo 11, 20 July 1969) Other highlights of the program included the first manned Lunar orbit (Apollo 8, December 1968); the first use of an electric vehicle, the "Lunar Rover," to explore the Moon's surface (Apollo 15, July 1971); and the first scientist-astronaut to visit the Moon (Harrison H Schmitt, Apollo 17, December 1972) The program began tragically with the deaths of Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I Grissom, Edward H White II and Roger B Chaffee in a launch pad fire during a preflight test in January 1967
{i} sun god and patron of music and poetry (Classical Mythology); series of US space crafts designed to land on the moon
An engineering workstation manufacturing company that was acquired by HP in 1989 Apollo's products, its Domain line, used both conventional (Motorola MC68000-series processors) and parallel RISC technology (which Apollo termed PRISM)
Most widely revered of the Greek gods. He communicated the will of his father Zeus, made humans aware of their guilt and purified them of it, presided over religious and civil law, and foretold the future. His bow symbolized distance, death, terror, and awe; his lyre symbolized music, poetry, and dance. As a patron of the arts, he was often associated with the Muses. He was also a god of crops and herds. He became associated with the sun, and was even identified with Helios, the sun god. Also associated with healing, he was the father of Asclepius. By tradition, Apollo and his twin, Artemis, were born at Delos to Leto. Apollo's oracle was established at Delphi; the Pythian Games commemorated his killing (while still an infant) of the serpent Python to take the shrine. His many lovers fared poorly: the fleeing Daphne became a laurel tree; the unfaithful Coronis was shot by Artemis, and Cassandra, who rejected him, was doomed to utter true prophecies no one would believe. NASA manned Moon-landing project of the 1960s and '70s. The Apollo spacecraft, supplied with their own low-powered rockets, could brake on approach to the Moon and go into lunar orbit. They also could release part of the spacecraft, the lunar module, with its own rocket power, to land astronauts on the Moon and bring them back to the lunar orbiter. In July 1969 Apollo 11 made the first lunar landing (see Edwin Aldrin; Neil Armstrong). In 1970 Apollo 13 was damaged by an explosion in an oxygen tank but returned safely to Earth. Later Apollo missions explored the lunar surface extensively, collecting samples of Moon rocks and installing instruments for research. Apollo 17, the program's final lunar flight, took place in 1972. In total, 12 American astronauts walked on the Moon during six successful lunar-landing missions