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Apollo 11 Cave
Apollo 11 Cave is a rock shelter in southern Namibia, known for seven painted stone slabs dated to about 30,000 years ago, Africa's earliest figurative art.
Apollo 11 missing tapes
Apollo 11 missing tapes: the original slow-scan television (SSTV) moonwalk recordings on one-inch telemetry tape from Goldstone, Honeysuckle Creek, and Parkes, judged erased for reuse in the early 1980s; broadcast copies survived and enabled NASA's 2009 restoration.
Apollo 11 stones
The Apollo 11 stones are seven painted stone slabs from the Apollo 11 Cave in southern Namibia, among the oldest known figurative art, at about 30,000 years old.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was the United States' second crewed Moon landing, in November 1969, commanded by Pete Conrad, achieving the first precision landing near the Surveyor 3 probe.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13, the seventh crewed Apollo mission, aborted its 1970 lunar landing after an oxygen tank exploded, but Jim Lovell and his crew returned safely.
Apollo 13 (film)
Apollo 13 (1995) is Ron Howard's historical drama starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, based on Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's book Lost Moon; it earned over $350 million, ranked third for 1995, and joined the National Film Registry in 2023.
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was the third Apollo mission to land on the Moon, reaching the Fra Mauro highlands in February 1971 with Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was the fourth crewed lunar landing of NASA's Apollo program, launched on July 26, 1971, with Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin.
Apollo 15 postal covers incident
The Apollo 15 postal covers incident, also known as the Apollo 15 postage stamp scandal, was a 1972 NASA scandal over unauthorized covers flown to the Moon.
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 was the fifth crewed Moon landing of NASA's Apollo program, launched in April 1972 and the only mission to land in the central lunar highlands at Descartes.
Apollo 17
Apollo 17, the sixth and final Apollo lunar landing mission, carried Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt to the Taurus-Littrow valley in December 1972.
Apollo 18 (film)
Apollo 18 is a 2011 found-footage sci-fi horror film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, presenting a secret 1974 US moon mission; it grossed about $26.5 million on a $5 million budget despite 24% reviews.
Apollo 4
Apollo 4 was the first uncrewed flight test of the three-stage Saturn V rocket and the first launch from Kennedy Space Center, lifted off on November 9, 1967.
Apollo 5
Apollo 5, an uncrewed NASA mission launched on January 22, 1968, carried out the first test flight of the Apollo Lunar Module, verifying its propulsion systems and staging, and was deemed a complete success.
Apollo 6
Apollo 6 was an uncrewed NASA test flight launched on April 4, 1968, the second test of the Saturn V rocket and the final uncrewed qualification before crewed Apollo missions.
Apollo 7
Apollo 7, also called Apollo VII, was the first crewed Apollo flight, an 11-day Earth-orbit test in October 1968 flown by Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham.
Apollo 8
Apollo 8, NASA's 1968 mission crewed by Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders, was the first to send humans out of Earth orbit and around the Moon.
Apollo 9
Apollo 9, or Apollo IX, was the third crewed Apollo mission and first crewed Lunar Module flight, launched in March 1969 to test lunar landing procedures in Earth orbit.
Apollo Alaeus (temple)
Temple of Apollo Alaeus, a sanctuary of Apollo near Punta Alice at Crimisa (Ciro), Calabria, South Italy; foundation credited to Philoctetes, who dedicated his bow; Barrington Atlas 46 F3.
Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne (Greek myth): Apollo, struck by Eros's golden arrow, pursues the nymph Daphne (Δαφνη, 'laurel'), who is transformed into a laurel tree; aetiological myth behind Apollo's sacred laurel and the Pythian crown, told in Ovid's Metamorphoses and sculpted by Bernini.
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625), Carrara marble, 243 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome; commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, assisted by Giuliano Finelli, depicting Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel tree from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Apollo Asgelatos (temple)
The temple of Apollo Asgelatos was an ancient Greek temple on the Cycladic island of Anafi, bearing an epithet found nowhere else and later overlaid by a monastery.
Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company
Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company is a private credit company formed in Delaware in 2023 and sponsored by Apollo Global Management, investing in consumer finance, real estate lending, and trade finance.
Apollo Belvedere
The Apollo Belvedere is a 2nd-century Roman marble statue of Apollo as an archer in the Vatican Museums, long celebrated as the epitome of classical sculpture.
Apollo Bingo
Apollo Bingo is a UK bingo hall brand: four current clubs at Rhyl, Caernarfon, Camborne, and Lowestoft run by Real Fun Group since its late-2023 rescue of Majestic Bingo venues, plus earlier namesake operators and the 1978 Glasgow Apollo bingo controversy.
Apollo command and service module
The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was a two-module crewed spacecraft built by North American Aviation, flying 23 missions, 15 crewed, including all lunar landings from 1968 to 1975.
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer was an American maker of graphical engineering workstations, founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and bought by Hewlett-Packard in 1989 for $476 million.
Apollo Creed
Apollo Creed is the fictional heavyweight boxing champion of the Rocky film franchise, played by Carl Weathers in the first four films, inspired by Muhammad Ali, killed by Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, and father of Adonis Creed of the Creed spin-offs.
Apollo Crews
Apollo Crews, born Sesugh Uhaa in 1987, is an American professional wrestler who wrestled in Japan as Uhaa Nation before joining WWE in 2015, winning United States and Intercontinental Championships.
Apollo Cynneius
Apollo Cynneius (Ἀπόλλων Κύννειος, Kynneios): a cult of Apollo with a sanctuary near Temnos in Aiolis destroyed by Prusias II in 155 BCE (Polybius 32.15.12), plus an Athenian cult with the Kynnidai priesthood; site unlocated, Barrington Atlas 56 E4.