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Kuwahara Company (桑原商会, Kuwahara Shōkai) is a Japanese bicycle company manufacturing both bicycles and parts. The company was started as a small family business in Osaka, Japan in 1918 by Sentarō Kuwahara (桑原仙太郎). [1] With his wife and eight children, he began a local bicycle parts wholesale.
Parts books were often issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour. Now, many manufacturers offer this information digitally in an electronic parts catalogue. This can be locally installed software, or a centrally hosted web application. Usually, an electronic parts catalogue enables the user to virtually disassemble the product ...
Parts of Surveyor were brought back to Earth by Apollo 12. The camera (near Conrad's right hand) is on display at the National Air and Space Museum Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings is evidence, or analysis of evidence, about the Moon landings that does not come from either NASA or the U.S. government (the first party), or the ...
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]
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Besides the 2019 Chang'e 4 and SLIM missions, the only artificial objects on the Moon that are still in use are the retroreflectors for the Lunar Laser Ranging experiments left there by the Apollo 11, 14, and 15 astronauts, Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander, and by the Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2 missions.
Six of the flags (including one for Apollo 13 which was not planted on the Moon) were ordered from a government supply catalog and measured 3 by 5 feet (0.91 by 1.52 m); the last one planted on the Moon was the slightly larger, 6-foot (1.8 m)-wide flag which had hung in the MSC Mission Operations Control Room for most of the Apollo program.
The officially unnumbered Apollo spacecraft used in the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project; The fictional Apollo 18 mission in James Michener's 1982 novel Space; The fictional Apollo 18 mission in the 2024 Constellation TV series on Apple TV+; Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon, a 1988 video game by Accolade; Apollo 18, a 1992 album by They Might Be ...