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  Project Apollo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grumman Apollo LM The Lunar Module itself was composed of a descent stage and an ascent stage, the former serving as a launch platform for the latter when the lunar exploration party blasted off for lunar orbit where they would dock with the CSM prior to returning to Earth.
Two of the flights (Apollo 7 and Apollo 9) were Earth orbital missions, two of the flights (Apollo 8 and Apollo 10) were lunar orbital missions, and the remaining 7 flights were lunar landing missions (although one, Apollo 13, failed to land).
The Apollo program was at least partly motivated by psycho-political considerations, in response to persistent perceptions of American inferiority in space technology vis-a-vis the Soviets, in the context of the Cold War and the Space Race.
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 Encyclopedia: Apollo 18
Apollo 18 was a cancelled flight within the Apollo Program, which would have been the eighth attempted lunar landing.
Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program, and was the sixth and last mission to date to land on the Moon.
Apollo 15 was originally meant to be a H mission—like Apollo 12, 13 and 14.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Apollo-18   (874 words)

  
 Apollo 18 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Apollo 18 was a cancelled flight within the (A program of space flights undertaken by US to land a man on the moon) Apollo Program, which would have been the eighth attempted lunar landing.
Apollo 15 was originally meant to be a H mission—like Apollo (The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one) 12, (The cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one) 13 and (The cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one) 14.
These cancellations meant that Apollo 15 became a J mission—three day stay on the moon with the lunar rover and that Apollo 18 would no longer be launched.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ap/apollo_18.htm   (419 words)

  
 Cancelled Apollo missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Apollo 8 was originally slated to be a D mission, flying the LM and CSM in Earth orbit.
During Skylab 3, a malfunction on the Apollo CSM docked to the station caused fears that the crew would not be able to return safely.
A modified Apollo CSM was prepared, with two crew spaces and three additional bunks crammed in beneath them; however, the problem was fixed without requiring a rescue flight, and the mission was stood down.
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 Cancelled Apollo missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Along with Apollos 18, 19 and 20, which received some level of planning, there were a variety of later planned flights.
These cancellations meant that Apollo 15 became a J mission — three day stay on the moon with the lunar rover and that Apollo 18 would no longer be launched.
During the early Apollo missions he had used a rotation system of assigning a crew as backup and then three missions later they would be the prime crew.
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 Apollo 18
Apollo 18 was originally planned in July 1969 to land in the moon's Schroter's Valley, a riverlike channel-way.
Apollo 18 and 19 might be scrapped because some NASA planners wanted to use the boosters and spaceships already being built to speed the space base and space station programs.
NASA cancelled Apollo 18 and 19 on 2 September 1970 because of congressional cuts in FY 1971 NASA appropriations.
www.astronautix.com /flights/apollo18.htm   (717 words)

  
 Apollo 18 (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apollo 18 is They Might Be Giants' fourth studio album, although it is the fifth disc in their discography.
It was released in 1992 (see 1992 in music), and named after a cancelled entry into NASA's Apollo program.
Despite its lack of a chart-topping single and somewhat mixed reception from critics, Apollo 18 remains a fan favorite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollo_18_(album)   (296 words)

  
 Apollo 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harrison Hagan (Jack) Schmitt When Apollo 18 was cancelled, Schmitt was moved up to Apollo 17 under pressure from the scientific community.
Apollo 8: In the Beginning A few comments from people involved with the Apollo program.
Apollo One Memorial Foundation Dedicated to the remembrance of and in memoriam to the three brave astronauts of Apollo One.
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APOLLO 18 The distinction between simulators and arcade games is often blurred.
On its face, Accolade's APOLLO 18 is a simulation of the entire Apollo 18 mission: the launch of the Saturn V rocket, maneuvers, moon landing and walk, spacewalk, and re-entry.
APOLLO 18 is an arcade game; or, rather, a series of small arcade games that serve to move the plot along.
www.textfiles.com /games/REVIEWS/apollo18.rev   (739 words)

  
 Apollo (ASTP)
However the flight of the last Apollo spacecraft was marred by the fact that the crew almost perished while the capsule was descending under its parachute.
Apollo's orbit was circularised at 167.4 by 164.7 kilometres at 6:35.
Where the geodynamics experiment utilised Apollo and ATS 6 in an attempt to measure these movements (the so-called low-high approach), the doppler tracking experiment involved the use of two satellites in low earth orbit (the low-low approach) to measure the existence of "mass anomalies" greater than 200 kilometres in size.
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 Apollo 13
In the year that it took to discover and correct the cause of the Apollo 13 failure, the scope of the remaining missions was altered.
Apollo 12 was moved up from September 18 to September 13, 1969; and Apollo 13 was moved up from December 1 to November 10.
Payload: Apollo CSM 109 / Apollo LM 7 / ALSEP / S-IVB-508.
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 Apollo 18 (ASTP)
Apollo 18 (ASTP) - Mock-ups of USSR Soyuz spacecraft on display at Star City - Credit: NASA.
Apollo 18 (ASTP) - Two Soviet crewmen for ASTP mission photographed at launch pad - Credit: NASA.
Apollo 18 (ASTP) - Soyuz space vehicle is launched to begin joint U.S.-USSR ASTP mission - Credit: NASA.
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 APOLLO 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Einen Apollo-Raumflug mit der Nummer 18 gab es offiziell nie.
Kurz nach der erfolgreichen Mondlandung von Apollo 11 verkündete die NASA am 29.
Danach war Apollo 18 für Februar 1972 vorgesehen und sollte in der Nähe des Kraters Kopernikus landen.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/A/Apollo_18   (143 words)

  
 Apollo 18 (album)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Apollo 18 is the name of TheyMight Be Giants ' fourth album, although it is the fifth disc in their discography.
The album was named after NASA 's Apollo program, which hadseventeen missions.
The album is said to be the band's most electronic, a marked difference from the simple drum machine -and- guitar style of theirprevious albums.
www.therfcc.org /apollo-18-album--88933.html   (196 words)

  
 Apollo 18 for PC Review - PC Apollo 18 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anybody who grew up watching the Apollo space missions on TV must have at least a little desire to be an astronaut.
Apollo 18 tries to re-create the exhilaration of those Apollo missions by letting you take on the duties of a NASA astronaut, but about the only thing it truly succeeds at is proving there's a whole lot of tedious work that goes on behind the scenes of a moon shot.
The overriding problem with Apollo 18, though, is its static nature: You listen to a command, then click the appropriate button.
www.gamespot.com /pc/sim/apollo18/review.html   (863 words)

  
 Apollo 18 Archive
There were originally 3 more Apollo missions scheduled to fly to the Moon in the initial Apollo plan, all were cancelled due to budgetary constraints.
The flights planned for Apollo 15 and Apollo 19 were cancelled in September, 1970, the remaining missions were then renumbered 15 through 17.
(The ASTP is often referred to as "Apollo 18" although the original Apollo 18 was the planned Moon mission.) Charles Conrad and Paul Weitz were assigned to the first crew to Skylab, Weitz later commanded a shuttle mission.
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 Apollo & Skylab
Apollo missions were launched atop two different boosters, the Saturn 1B used for the Earth orbiting missions (including Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz), and the mighty Saturn V, the rocket to the moon.
Following its success, Apollo 8, the first human flight of the Saturn V, was launched around the moon in December, and by the following July, Apollo 11 actually placed a man on another celestial body and brought him home again.
The Apollo spacecraft was used for four later missions, the three long-duration Skylab missions the final Apollo flight, the Apollo-Soyuz linkup with the Soviet Soyuz 19.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/apollo/welcome.html   (797 words)

  
 Read about Apollo 17 at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Apollo 17 and learn about Apollo 17 here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program, and was the sixth and last mission to date to land on the Moon.
Schmitt was originally due to fly on the cancelled Apollo 18 but following pressure from the science community was moved up to LM pilot on Apollo 17 in favour of
Apollo 17 entry at Apollo Lunar Surface Jurnal (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.html) - Provides an extensive insight of the mission, along with full transcripts and detailed interviews with the crewmembers.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Apollo_17   (644 words)

  
 Apollo 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Apollo 18 was a cancelled flight within the ApolloProgram.
When Apollo 18 was cancelled, Schmitt was moved up to Apollo 17 under pressurefrom the scientific community.
Before cancellation, (according to "NASA OMSF, Manned Space Flight Weekly Report - July 28, 1969.") Apollo 18 was scheduled toland on the moon at Schroter's Valley in February 1972.
www.therfcc.org /apollo-18-64152.html   (143 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Apollo 18 (album)
Cover of the They Might Be Giants album Apollo 18.
Apollo 18 (http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Apollo_18) page at This Might Be A Wiki
Here Come the ABCs They Might Be Giants (commonly abbreviated to TMBG) is an American pop/rock duo consisting of John Linnell and John Flansburgh, collectively known as the two Johns or John and John.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Apollo-18-(album)   (1242 words)

  
 Apollo 18    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The dose was high enough that astronauts exposed on the surface of the moon were severely incapacitated and unable to successfully return to the command module, which then was forced to return home without them.
In his 1982 book, "Space", in a chapter called "Dark Side of the Moon", Robert Michener told the cautionary tale of a fictitious Apollo 18 mission to the Moon.
This figure is from inside the back cover of Space and shows the history of Apollo 18.
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 Apollo 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When Apollo 18 was cancelled Schmitt was up to Apollo 17 under pressure from the scientific community.
Before cancellation (according to "NASA OMSF Manned Flight Weekly Report - July 28 1969.") 18 was scheduled to land on the at Schroter's Valley in February 1972.
Sym 18 in G / Sym 28 in a / Sym 52 in C Minor
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 Apollo-Soyuz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 Launched: July 15, 1975
This, the final flight of the Apollo spacecraft, was the first docking of spacecraft built by different nations and presaged the era of cooperation between the Russians and the Americans that is now such an essential part of our efforts to build a permanently occupied space station.
The Apollo era, an era of the greatest achievements in mankind's history, had ended.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/apollo/soyuz.html   (182 words)

  
 UM Apollo Archive
The last one is a genuine Apollo, and is probably the slowest and least reliable of the bunch.
Almost complete X11R5 for apollo m68ksr10 machines, compiled with version 6.9 of cc in the bsd4.3 environment on a node running sr10.4 (and with shared libraries, that must be inlib'ed at system startup).
The problem has to do with Apollos not delivering SIGIO when a X client message arrives (the symptom was that Emacs would time out waiting for a reply to the XConvertProperty call).
www.citi.umich.edu /apollo-archive   (7194 words)

  
 Apollo 18 (album) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Apollo 18 (album) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Apollo 18 is (Click link for more info and facts about They Might Be Giants) They Might Be Giants' fourth studio album, although it is the fifth disc in their discography.
The album marked the first conscious effort by John Linnell and John Flansburg to branch out of their early sound, opting for more traditional rock rhythms and fuller arrangements.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ap/Apollo_18_(album).htm   (431 words)

  
 Apollo 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nach der erfolgreichen Landung von Mondlandung von APOLLO 11 wurde festgelegt, daß APOLLO 18 im Schrötertal landen sollte, was aufgrund der Streichung des Fluges von APOLLO 20 im Januar 1970 auf Februar 1972 vorgezogen wurde.
Außerdem wurde der Landeplatz von APOLLO 18 zum Krater Gassendi verlegt.
Der Geologe Harrison Schmitt durfte trotzdem zum Mond fliegen, und zwar mit der APOLLO 17, dafür mußte Joe Henry Engle auf seine Misssion, bei der er Pilot der Mondlandefähre geworden wäre, verzichten.
www.manfredholl.de /apollo18.htm   (260 words)

  
 RollingStone.com: Apollo 18 : They Might Be Giants : Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The world of absurdist wit has always numbered musicians among its residents, but no band has gentrified the neighborhood like They Might Be Giants.
Apollo 18, the Brooklyn duo's fourth album (not counting a rarities compilation), orbits a planet on which such topics as death, culture, identity and dining can all be dispatched with melodic intelligence and a clever phrase or three.
Careful not to burden airy tunes with ponderous lyrics, the Giants inflate weighty topics with enough whimsy to mask their songs' unsmiling core.
www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/213363/theymightbegiants?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1   (309 words)

  
 TMBG Album Art: Apollo 18
To the left is one of the numerous photo's inside of Apollo 18's Sleeve.
This is one of those CD booklets that folds out and has about 6 different panels, with lots of room for lyrics, thanks, and photo's.
To the left is the last color photo inside of the Apollo 18 sleeve.
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 Space history: Apollo Program space history - Apollo missions spaceflight
The Apollo Program began with a tragedy, when fire swept through a Block One Apollo spacecraft on January 27, 1967 killing Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee during a "plugs out" test on the pad.
The subsequent redesign produced a safer and superior spacecraft for the 45 astronauts that flew in them from Apollo 7 in October of 1968 to Apollo-Soyuz in July of 1975.
In all, twelve men, starting with Neil Armstrong and ending with Eugene Cernan, walked on the moon before Apollo was completed.
www.thespaceplace.com /history/apollo2.html   (250 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: Apollo 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Before Apollo, my previous experience with TMBG had consisted of the greatest hits album Severe Tire Damage, as well as the requisite Flood.
Unlike their other albums, however, Apollo showcases the Johns at their most exploratory, if not necessarily their most experimental.
The bottom line is that this album will forever hold a unique place in music, and whether you are a TMBG fan or a newcomer, the discoveries that you can make while listening to Apollo are well worth the money, if the infectious tunes and mind-bending lyrics aren't enough to persuade you.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002HA4   (1166 words)

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