Spaceship Apollo

The Apollo missions, the United States manned space missions that explored the Moon, use fuel cells to provide electricity to the spaceship as well as water for the astronauts. 

Hexanitroshlbene (HNS) has been reported for use in achieving stage separation in space rockets and also as a component of heat-resistant compositions employed in the Apollo spaceship and for seismic experiments on the moon [107]. Similar to HNS, 3,3 -diamino-2,2, 4,4, 6,6 -hexanitrodiphenyl (DIPAM) has also been reported for such applications [108]. 

Well, Hollywood movies seldom care about scientific accitracy, although there are respectable exceptions. The misfortune of Apollo 1, however weird this might be, was not in space, but during training on the sttrface of Earth. In fact, the spacecraft was not even named Apollo 1 at the time of the accident because only spaceships actually making it to space are numbered. Apollo 1 is an exception to commemorate the three astronauts who perished on board. 

NASA organized these photographic missions with an eye to terrestrial resources. Apollo 9, for instance, was the only satellite that carried out a systematic multi-spectral photography experiment. The spaceship carried an assembly of four cameras attached to one of the portholes. These were Hasselblads 500 EL with Zeiss //2.8 objectives, having a focal length of 80 mm. The shutters were manually operated. The four cameras were loaded with ... 

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