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Apollo killing Python. A 1581 engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I. In Greek mythology, Python (Greek: Πύθων; gen. Πύθωνος) was the serpent, sometimes represented as a medieval-style dragon, living at the center of the Earth, believed by the ancient Greeks to be at Delphi.
Apollo/Skylab A7L EVA and Moon suits – The Block II Apollo suit was the primary pressure suit worn for eleven Apollo flights, three Skylab flights, and the US astronauts on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project between 1968 and 1975. The pressure garment's nylon outer layer was replaced with fireproof Beta cloth after the Apollo 1 fire. This suit ...
Cortain (also Corte, Cortana, "Short"; Danish: Kortone), the shortened sword of Ogier the Dane, which was broken when test-cutting a marble block and had to be refashioned with the shorter blade. [4] And when Ogier was about to strike Prince Charlot dead in vengeance, but the archangel Michael stays the sword Short, and the prince is spared. [5]
The Apollo EMUs consisted of a Pressure Suit Assembly (PSA) aka "suit" and a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) that was more commonly called the "backpack". [3] The A7L was the PSA model used on the Apollo 7 through 14 missions. [4] The subsequent Apollo 15-17 lunar missions, [5] Skylab, [6] and Apollo–Soyuz used A7LB pressure suits. [7]
The Apollo 1 spacecraft weighed approximately 45,000 pounds (20,000 kg), while the Block II Apollo 7 weighed 36,400 lb (16,500 kg). (These two Earth orbital craft were lighter than the craft which later went to the Moon, as they carried propellant in only one set of tanks, and did not carry the high-gain S-band antenna.)
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Their Dragon 2 spacecraft uses its SuperDraco engines during a launch abort scenario. Although often referred to as a "pusher" arrangement since it lacks a tower, the Dragon 2 LAS removes both the capsule and its trunk together from the launch vehicle. The system is designed to abort with the SuperDraco engines at the top of the abort stack as ...
Return to Ravnica is a Magic: The Gathering block, consisting of Return to Ravnica (October 5, 2012), Gatecrash (February 1, 2013), and Dragon's Maze (May 3, 2013). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the second block set on the plane of Ravnica , after the Ravnica block, and again focuses on the multicolor cards and ten guilds of Ravnica.