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  2. Apollo Education Group - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona, with an additional corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. It is privately-owned by a consortium of investors including The Vistria Group, LLC and funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC.

  3. Michael Collins (astronaut) - Wikipedia

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    1952–1970 (active) 1970–1982 (reserve) Signature. Michael Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was also a test pilot and major general ...

  4. Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Elaine Hamilton ( née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA 's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton ...

  5. Apollo Group Explores Education, Jobs and the American Dream

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    Apollo Group Explores Education, Jobs and the American Dream Report Examines the Level of Educational Attainment in the U.S., the Rise of the Skills Gap NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Apollo Group ...

  6. Apollo program - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men [2] on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.

  7. Astronaut training - Wikipedia

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    The trainees must learn medicine, language, robotics and piloting, space system engineering, the organization of space systems, and the acronyms in aerospace engineering during the basic training. While 60% to 80% of the astronauts will experience space motion sickness, including pallor, cold sweating, vomiting, and anorexia, [7] the astronaut ...

  8. Roger B. Chaffee - Wikipedia

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    Roger Bruce Chaffee ( / ˈtʃæfiː /; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program . Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eagle Scout. He graduated from Central High School in 1953, and accepted a Naval Reserve ...

  9. Apollo 9 - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program.Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).