Apollo program
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- /əˈpɑloʊ ˈprɒɡræm/
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programa Apolo
- The Apollo program was a significant effort by NASA to explore the Moon and expand human presence in space.
Star Trek was made during the height of the Apollo program, so they weren't going to use space suits that look like Apollo space suits.
- Star Trek was made during the height of the Apollo program, so they weren't going to use space suits that look like Apollo space suits.
Examples
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The Sputnik scared everybody to death, but the Apollo program excited people and it inspired them.
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In the early 1960s, NASA's Apollo program gave an urgent new impetus to ground-based telescopic mapping of the Moon.
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The Apollo program to land men on the Moon was in progress.
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The Apollo program was a product of a unique time and place.
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The Apollo program was the best thing the USA ever did, in my view.
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I'm making a documentary here about the Apollo program.
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The Apollo program proved moon landings weren't just impossible science fiction.
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After the Apollo program ended, the VAB was remodeled to accommodate the space shuttle.
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But if they are between forty and sixty years old, and you ask what inspired them to become scientists, nearly every one (at least in my experience) will cite the high-profile Apollo program.
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John F. Kennedy's Apollo program led to one of the most dramatic episodes of the twentieth century—signaling the apex of American inspiration and power—and it was delivered in the midst of the Vietnam War.
Academic text (2008)
How Ambitious
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Apollo + program
The noun 'program' clearly signals an organized set of projects and 'Apollo' is a proper name, so a learner who knows both words can infer this is a program called Apollo. However, the specific referent—a series of US missions to land humans on the Moon—is world-knowledge beyond the literal constituents, so the full meaning is not predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Apollo program was named after Apollo, the Greek god of light and bold journeys. NASA used this name to suggest a bright, heroic trip into space, so today Apollo program means the series of US 'missions' that sent people to the 'Moon'.