English example sentences with "Apollo"

The Apollo program greatly advanced our knowledge of space.
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A report came in that Apollo 11 succeeded in landing on the moon.
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On the same day, Apollo 11 succeeded in landing on the moon's surface.
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Against all expectations, the Apollo spacecraft made it safely back to Earth.
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Apollo was in constant communication with Houston Mission Control.
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Beetroot was offered to Apollo in his temple at Delphi.
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On January 27, 1967, the cockpit of Apollo 1 caught fire during a practice countdown. United States astronauts Edward White II, Virgil Grissom, and Roger Chaffee died in the fire.
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In 1968 on December 21, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders carried out the first Apollo mission which orbited the Moon.
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On Apollo 9 and Apollo 10 missions, further testing of the lunar landing craft were carried out. This paved the way for the success of Apollo 11 in landing on the lunar surface.
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The mission of Apollo 13, though, was a near disaster as an explosion damaged the craft on the way to the Moon. The mission had to be aborted and re-entry was achieved only with great difficulty.
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Apollo 14 successfully completed its mission and returned to the Earth with 43.5 kilograms of lunar rocks and soil.
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The lunar module of Apollo 15 landed on the Moon on July 30, 1971 and the astronauts explored the surface riding in the first lunar rover.
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Apollo 16 brought back a large number of lunar rocks and soil samples.
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Footprints left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts will still be visible to Moon visitors 1 million years from now.
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After a flight of 8 days, 3 hours, and 19 minutes, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24 at 12:51 E.D.S.T.
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A shoulder patch from the Apollo 1 mission, whose crew was killed in a fire, and medals commemorating two Soviet cosmonauts who died in their country's space efforts, were left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
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In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong was the commander of Apollo 11, America's first attempt to land a manned vehicle on the Moon.
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While on the Moon Shepard played golf with a club he had carried onboard the lunar spacecraft of Apollo 14.
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My cat gave birth to a kitten named Apollo.
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"Full fast the rumour 'mong the people wrought; / cold horror chills us, and aghast we stand; / whom doth Apollo claim, whose death the Fates demand?"
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Amid the waves is seen / an island, sacred to the Nereids' queen / and Neptune, lord of the AEgean wave, / which, floating once, Apollo fixed between / high Myconos and Gyarus, and gave / for man's resort, unmoved the blustering winds to brave.
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So spake he and on altars, reared aright, / due victims offered, and libations meet; / a bull to Neptune and Apollo bright, / to tempest a black lamb, to Western winds a white.

"Lo! what Apollo from Ortygia's shrine / would sing, unasked he sends us to proclaim."

"Mark then my words and in your breasts retain. / What Jove, the Sire omnipotent, of old / revealed to Phoebus, and to me again / Phoebus Apollo at his hest foretold, / I now to thee and thine, the Furies' Queen, unfold."

Orpheus was the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. He was presented by his father with a Lyre and taught to play upon it, which he did to such perfection that nothing could withstand the charm of his music.

The U.S. space agency, NASA, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this historic event in style – by restoring and reopening the control room that handled the historic Apollo 11 mission.

Apollo astronauts—Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins—blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida 50 years ago on the towering Saturn Five rocket to begin their journey to the moon.

Collins, who remained in the Apollo command module while his fellow astronauts Aldrin and Armstrong landed on the moon, said he was very happy being alone in the spacecraft as it orbited the moon.

Despite the huge amount of evidence, the dust and rock samples, the television footage, and the hundreds of thousands of people who made it happen, polls show as many as 6% of Americans believe the Apollo 11 astronauts never landed on the moon.

Once a year, Apollo laughs.

Fortunately for today’s scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to save much of the 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of Moon soil and rocks retrieved by NASA astronauts 50 years ago for future generations. They figured new crops of scientists, using instruments of their time, would be able to probe the samples with unprecedented rigor.

She leads a team that will study samples of regolith, or Moon soil, collected in 1972 near the Apollo 17 landing site of Taurus-Littrow Valley on the eastern rim of Mare Serenitatis.

Today, as a scientist at NASA, she still finds herself awed by NASA and the Moon landings, whether through watching video footage from the Apollo era or handling Moon samples.

Astronaut Al Worden, who flew around the moon as part of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, died in his sleep, his family said Wednesday. He was 88.

Enthusiasm for lunar flights had diminished greatly. By the time Apollo 13 came around, I think the only mention in The New York Times was on page 67 of the weather page, because everyone had forgotten.

“We were not prepared for any kind of problems as large as Apollo 13,” said NASA Flight Director Gerald “Gerry” Griffin.

“Years later when we decided to write a book about the story of Apollo 13 – I got the feeling that yes, the flight was a failure,” Lovell said. “But in another aspect it was a triumph in how people can take an almost certain catastrophe – working together, figuring out solutions to crisis that we didn’t plan for or train for and get this spacecraft back home.”

The Apollo 13 movie was a godsend because it gave the young people who weren’t even born at the time a chance to find out what was really happening back then.

By the time the towering Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 crew left the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, thundering into the skies on April 11, 1970, traveling to the moon seemed about as interesting to the general public as commuting to work.

It’s widely believed that the now-iconic “Earthrise” photo taken by Bill Anders on Apollo 8 in 1968 spurred the modern environmental protection movement that led to the first Earth Day.

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968.

On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to witness the Earth rising above the moon's barren surface.

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space.

On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the moon.

Moreover, if Helenus has any foresight, if the seer may claim any faith, if Apollo fills his soul with truths, this one thing, Goddess-born, this one in lieu of all I will foretell, and again and again repeat the warning: mighty Juno’s power honour first with prayer; to Juno joyfully chant vows, and win over the mighty mistress with suppliant gifts. So at last you will leave Trinacria behind and be sped triumphantly to the bounds of Italy.

Australia’s most famous radio telescope that played a key role in televising the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 has been given a new Aboriginal name.

Originally developed for astronaut food in the early days of the Apollo program, the HACCP system has been adopted by major players in the food industry.

Between 1969 and 1972, the U.S. brought back a total of 382 kilograms of lunar soil through seven Apollo manned spacecraft missions, six of which succeeded.

Apollo is the brother of Athena.

It was, after all, America’s third mission aimed at landing on the desolate orb, a feat accomplished nine months before during the much-celebrated Apollo 11 mission.

Apollo adjudged Socrates the wisest man.

One might suppose, in reading some modern writers, that the Nymphs and Fauns, the River-Gods and Pan, were at least as prominent in all Greek poetry as Zeus, Apollo, and Athena, or that Apollo was only the sweet singer and not also the prophet of retribution.

Apollo 11 astronauts set up the first reflector when they made the first manned flight to the moon nearly 40 years ago.

Artemis was the sister of Apollo.

The Saturn 5 was NASA’s heavy lift, expendable rocket used in the Apollo program that took astronauts to the Moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and it remains the most powerful operational space rocket ever built.

The Phocians having ploughed up some consecrated ground belonging to the temple of Apollo, the Amphyctionic council, according to the superstition of the age, imposed a fine on the sacrilegious offenders.

The magnificent octagonal Baptistery is said to have been originally a Temple of Apollo, and the eight monolithic columns that support the modern cupola are of the Roman period.

The spaceship Apollo 11 reached a speed of close to 40,000 km/h.

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean after the crew and NASA engineers surmounted what seemed like impossible odds in a story that captivated the entire planet. The mission started off well, but when the spacecraft was over 200,000 miles from Earth, an oxygen tank exploded during a routine check, all but crippling the spacecraft. NASA decided the best way back to earth was to slingshot around the moon. During the trip back, the crew of astronauts, James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise, endured freezing temperatures, limited power, shortage of water and toxic levels of carbon dioxide. Many consider the safe return of Apollo 13 one of NASA’s finest moments. The saga was made into a movie in 1995.

At the time of Apollo 11 moon landing, there were no stars just a blank background.

The lunar rovers used by Apollo astronauts in the early 1970s, were essentially stripped down jeeps. This next generation vehicle will have a pressurized cabin that astronauts can live in for weeks at a time.

"How do you think the Apollo lunar rover got to the moon?" "Either it was pushed out of the cabin through the door or the GLS took it there."

Neil Armstrong, allegedly the first man to set foot on the Moon, went into hiding for decades after the Apollo 11 mission.

How is it possible that the earth can be seen just above the horizon photographed from the Apollo 11 landing site? It should be high above, almost directly overhead.

On July sixteenth, nineteen sixty-nine, three American astronauts lifted off in Apollo 11.