Apollo Program

Examples of Apollo Program in the following topics:

• The John F. Kennedy Administration

  • Kennedy called his domestic program the "New Frontier."
  • Kennedy is also known for the expansion of the U.S. space program.
  • Vice-President Johnson assured that lessons learned from the space program had military value as well, and so the space program under Kennedy began.
  • Costs for the Apollo program were expected to reach $40 billion.
  • On July 20, 1969, almost six years after Kennedy's death, Apollo 11 landed the first manned spacecraft on the moon.

• Nitrogen Compounds

  • These engines were extensively used on spacecraft such as the space shuttle and those of the Apollo Program because their propellants are liquids at room temperature and ignition occurs on contact without an ignition system, allowing many precisely controlled burns.

• Delphi and Greek Treasuries

  • Parnassus, was known for its Sanctuary of Apollo, the Delphic Oracle, and the Pythian Games.
  • Apollo slew the Python, establishing his presence at the site.
  • There was also a large theatre built into the hillside located just above the Temple of Apollo.
  • The east pediment recounts the story of Herakles stealing Apollo's tripod, which visually connects the pediment and the treasury to the oracle site at the Temple of Apollo.
  • Herakles stealing the tripod of Apollo.

• Perseus Gets his Outfit

  • Tandem Apolló et Minerva viam démónstrávérunt.
  • Apolló autem et Minerva falcem et speculum dedérunt.

• Reactions to Sputnik

  • The Sputnik crisis is the name for the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program.
  • The act was a four-year program that poured billions of dollars into the U.S. education system.
  • After the initial public shock, the Space Race began, leading to the first human launched into space, Project Apollo, and the first manned moon landing in 1969.
  • Increased emphasis on the Navy's existing Project Vanguard to launch an American satellite into orbit, and a revival of the Army's Explorer program that preceded Vanguard in launching the first American satellite into orbit on January 31, 1958.
  • Education programs were initiated to foster a new generation of engineers.

• Sculpture in the Greek Orientalizing Period

  • There are no inscriptions on sculpture before the appearance of the bronze Mantiklos Apollo (early seventh century BCE) found in Thebes.
  • His legs bear the inscription, "Mantiklos offered me as a tithe to Apollo of the silver bow; do you, Phoibos [Apollo], give some pleasing favor in return."
  • The inscription is a declaration of the statuette to Apollo, followed by a request for favors in return.
  • This freedom of movement is seen not only in the legs of the Apollo figure but also in the separation of his hand from his chest.
  • While the Mantiklos Apollo holds his hand parallel to his chest, the Lady of Auxerre places her hand directly on hers, maintaining the closed form expected of a "respectable" woman.

• Flavian Architecture

  • Under the Flavian dynasty, a massive building program was undertaken, leaving multiple enduring landmarks in the city of Rome, the most spectacular of which was the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum.
  • The Flavian dynasty is perhaps best known for its vast construction program on the city of Rome, intended to restore the capital from the damage it had suffered during the Great Fire of 64, and the civil war of 69.
  • In 75 a colossal statue of Apollo, begun under Nero as a statue of himself, was finished on Vespasian's orders, and he also dedicated a stage of the theater of Marcellus.
  • Much more than a renovation project however, Domitian's building program was intended to be the crowning achievement of an Empire wide cultural renaissance.

• Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

  • The Temple of Apollo at Didyma was both a temple and an oracle site.
  • The structure creates a series of imposing spaces from the exterior colonnade to the oracle rooms and the interior courtyard inside of which the shrine to Apollo stood.
  • Plan and elevation of the Temple of Apollo.

• African Art

  • Discovered in 1969, the Apollo 11 cave in Namibia is the site of Africa's oldest discovered art .
  • The Apollo 11 cave in Namibia is the site of Africa's oldest discovered art.

• Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • The Niobid Painter's red-figure krater of Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe, from 460 BCE, is believed to be a composition inspired by a panel painting.
  • The side of the vessel depicting Artemis and Apollo relates to the myth of the twin god and goddess who slew Niobe's fourteen children after she boasted that her ability to birth children acceded Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis.
  • Apollo and Artemis stand in the center of the vessel as Niobe's children fall to ground around them.
  • Artemis and Apollo Slaying the Children of Niobe.
  • Reverse side of the krater depicting Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe.