Apollo was one of the great risks this country took that paid off gloriously, allowing Humanity to make its first step on another world.
It also managed to get a relatively good price from Apollo, said one analyst who wished to remain anonymous.
It occurred between two Apollo missions, with one crew just returned from the Moon and another preparing for launch.
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As anyone who has seen the incredible movie Apollo 13 knows, one of the biggest challenges of the mission was making course corrections.
On April 11, it will have been forty-three years since the Apollo 13 lunar mission became one of the greatest death-defying adventures in history.
With no means of communicating with the outside world, and no other human beings within thousands of miles, this was the Edwardian equivalent of an Apollo moon shot, but one that lasted years, not months.
As you can see this is not a place of fantastic design but given that you have access to pictures like the one taken from Apollo 13 just before the side of the command module blew away after an explosion - who needs fantastic design?
His "Live at The Apollo" in 1962 is widely considered one of the greatest concert records ever.
After the event, while reporters and some of the attendees gathered at the United House of Prayer across the street from the Apollo, Professor Cornel West -- one of the nation's foremost authorities on race relations -- and the Rev.
It should be noted also that the agencies, their industrial partners and a number of "space tourism" advocates have all previously thought about repeating the Apollo 8 Moon mission, if only to do one simple loop around the back.
The footage of the Apollo 11 crew's landing on the Moon is one of 20th Century's most important artefacts.
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Perhaps the more important question, which like all questions most worth answering is at its heart a philosophical one, is at what point in time Blackstone (or Apollo or KKR) ceases to be a private equity firm at its heart, and becomes some other form financial or investment enterprise.
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Before being chosen in 1962 as one of the "Group II" astronauts -- which included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell along with such legends as Frank Borman, Pete Conrad and John Young -- Armstrong was one of the elite pilots selected to fly the X-15 rocket plane up to five times the speed of sound and toward the edge of space.
Eighty-one-year-old Stan Lebar was in charge of the images from Apollo 11.
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No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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In preparation, four Earth orbital Mercury launches (carrying one astronaut each), one suborbital and nine Earth orbital Gemini flights (two astronauts each), two Earth orbital Apollo tests (three astronauts each), and two orbit tests made the lunar landings possible.
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The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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