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The Apollo affair or NUMEC affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company, NUMEC, in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel's nuclear weapons program.
Apollo is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States, 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Pittsburgh in a former coal-mining region. Apollo was settled in 1790, laid out in 1816, and incorporated as a borough in 1848.
As of the 2000 census, [6] there were 2,754 people, 1,108 households, and 794 families residing in the township. The population density was 195.4 inhabitants per square mile (75.4/km 2).
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
Drake Log Cabin is a historic log cabin located at Apollo, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1816, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, one-room, rectangular log cabin measuring 18 feet by 22 feet. It has a gable roof and interior end stone chimney.
We have the Apollo missions to thank for a lot of our geological knowledge about the moon.
Armstrong County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,558. [2] The county seat is Kittanning. [3] The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycoming Counties.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]