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Apollo came out with a teaser video for the Intensa Emozione on October 17, 2017, [3] and the car was fully revealed on October 24, 2017. In June 2018, Apollo revealed that the company would be partnering with HWA AG , a tuning and racing team spin-off from Mercedes-Benz tuner AMG , to complete the final stage of development for the car.
It was carried on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission and was planned to be used on Apollo 15, but was used only on Apollo 14 since Apollo 15's mission was changed to be the first to employ the motorized Lunar Roving Vehicle, which transported both astronauts and equipment. Astronauts nicknamed the MET "the rickshaw". It was pulled using a pulling bar ...
Astronauts manually flew Project Gemini with control sticks, but computers flew most of Project Apollo except briefly during lunar landings. [6] Each Moon flight carried two AGCs, one each in the command module and the Apollo Lunar Module, with the exception of Apollo 7 which was an Earth orbit mission and Apollo 8 which did not need a lunar module for its lunar orbit mission.
Various technologies and sensors that are used include radar (all-weather) and sometimes laser and cameras (employing image recognition) to detect an imminent crash. GPS sensors can detect fixed dangers such as approaching stop signs through a location database. [2] [4] [5] [6] Pedestrian detection can also be a feature of these types of systems.
The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology. NASA SP-4009. Available online: HTML; Orloff, Richard W. "Apollo By The Numbers". NASA History Division, Washington, DC, 2000. NASA SP-2000-4029. 345 pages. Available online: HTML Appendices useful. "Apollo Program Flight Summary Report Apollo Missions AS-201 through Apollo 16".
Apollo TV camera; Hasselblad "Electric Camera" (modified 500 EL) with 70 mm film; Maurer Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) with 16 mm film; Nikon F with 35 mm film; Mapping (Metric) Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 (see Sherman Fairchild#Lunar photography) [1]
Earlier this fall, Apple announced a new feature called Crash Detection for the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8. And we already know it works as advertised... even sometimes when it's not ...
The Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph (UVC) was one of the experiments deployed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 16 astronauts. It consisted of a telescope and camera that obtained astronomical images and spectra in the far ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum .