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Apollo-Optik store. Apollo-Optik is a German optics company owned by EssilorLuxottica focusing on retail eyewear. It shares its logo with British eyewear retailer VisionExpress, which is also a brand of EssilorLuxottica. It was founded 1972 in Schwabach and is operating in 40 countries. It is the biggest optics company in Europe.
LCC has conducted launches since the unmanned Apollo 4 (Apollo-Saturn 501) launch on November 9, 1967. LCC's first launch with a human crew was Apollo 8 on December 21, 1968. NASA's Space Shuttle program also used LCC. NASA has renovated the center for Space Launch System (SLS) missions, which began in 2022 with Artemis 1.
Mission Operations Control Room 2 at the conclusion of Apollo 11 in 1969. In 1961, as plans for Project Gemini began, it became increasingly clear that the Mercury Control Center located at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch center would become inadequate to control missions with maneuverable spacecraft such as Gemini and Apollo.
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.The pad, along with Launch Complex 39B, was first constructed in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V launch vehicle, and has been used to support NASA crewed space flight missions, including the historic Apollo 11 moon landing and the Space Shuttle.
Apollo 15 makes contact with the Pacific Ocean. Locations of Atlantic Ocean splashdowns of American spacecraft prior to the 21st century Locations of Pacific Ocean splashdowns of American spacecraft. Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water, usually by parachute.
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States.The site and its collection of facilities were originally built as the Apollo program's "Moonport" [2] and later modified for the Space Shuttle program.
The Vehicle Assembly Building (originally the Vertical Assembly Building), or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA.
It is located in the south-western corner of the dark lunar plain Mare Tranquillitatis ("Sea of Tranquility"). [1] The U.S. states of California and New Mexico have registered Tranquility Base as a heritage site associated with them, but Texas , the U.S. National Park Service , and UNESCO have declined to do so, due to the technicality that it ...