Apollo International history

A comparable percentage of the $1.23 trillion Federal budget in 1992 would have equaled more than $65 billion for NASA, whereas the agency's actual budget then stood at less than $15 billion.

57-68; and James R. Hansen, "Enchanted Rendezvous: The Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept," 1993, unpublished historical manuscript, NASA Historical Reference Collection.

Established in the year 1994, Apollo International Limited (AIL) is a multidimensional organisation with diversified operations across various business areas.

On Webb see, W. Henry Lambright, Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 1995).

UFO Moviez is the world’s largest ever networked digital cinema chain which has revolutionized film distribution and exhibition in India since 2005.

A Long March 3A rocket launched Chang’e 1 into an elliptical Earth orbit on October 24, 2007.

After nearly 16 months in lunar orbit, Chang’e 1 was crashed into the Moon on March 1, 2009.

Chang’e 2 was launched by a Long March 3C rocket on October 1, 2010.

Chang’e 2 continued studying the Moon until June 2011, when it left lunar orbit for the second Lagrangian point (L2), where it studied Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind.

Chang’e 3 launched on December 2, 2013.

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Because Chang’e 4 was on the far side, it communicated with Earth through the Queqiao relay satellite, which had been launched in May 2018 and placed into orbit around L2.

On January 3, 2019, Chang’e 4 became the first spacecraft to land on the Moon’s far side, which faces away from Earth.

Chang’e 5 launched on November 24, 2020, and landed on the Moon on December 1.

In March 2021, Co-Founder Marc Rowan formally assumes the role of CEO of Apollo, as part of a planned succession process first announced in January 2021.