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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.
Apollo alkaline fuel cell Alkaline fuel cells played a key part in the success of the 1960s U.S. Space Program that put a man on the moon for the first time. The AES R&D Group, led by Karl Kordesch of the Graz University of Technology in Austria , improved this fuel cell and adapted it for terrestrial, undersea, and extra-terrestrial usage.
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In 1989, Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for US$476 million (equivalent to $1170 million in 2023). [15] HP support for Apollo products was fragmented for the first few years, but was reorganized in late 1992, at which point there were still some 100,000 users of Apollo products and the user group InterWorks had some 4,500 members. [16]
The Apollo 1 crew, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, enter their spacecraft for a test in the O&C altitude chamber on October 18, 1966. In 1965, a pair of altitude chambers were installed in the High Bay for testing the environmental and life support systems of both the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar Module at simulated altitudes of up to 250,000 feet (76 km).
Tenneco owned and operated a large number of gasoline service stations, but all were closed or replaced with other brands by the mid-1990s. [ 7 ] Fairchild F-27J executive aircraft of Tenneco at Chicago O'Hare Airport in 1979.
Apollo Command Module primary guidance system components Apollo Lunar Module primary guidance system components Apollo Inertial Measurement Unit. The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as ...
It also had several cargo compartments used to carry, among other things: the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages ALSEP, the modularized equipment transporter (MET) (a hand-pulled equipment cart used on Apollo 14), the Lunar Rover (Apollo 15, 16 and 17), a surface television camera, surface tools, and lunar sample collection boxes.