were the apollo lunar modules named after the greek god apollo?
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The lunar modules were named based upon the wishes of the crew.\n\nFor instance, on the Apollo 10 mission, Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was named Snoopy, and on Apollo 11, it was named the Eagle ("The Eagle has landed.")\n\nA list of names bestowed upon the LEMs by their crews:\n\nThere were no Lunar Modules on Apollo flights 1, 7, and 8\nApollo 9: Spider\nApollo 10: Snoopy\nApollo 11: Eagle\nApollo 12: Intrepid\nApollo 13: Aquarius (never landed on the moon)\nApollo 14: Antares \nApollo 15: Falcon\nApollo 16: Orion \nApollo 17: Challenger (last Apollo mission)
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12 total\n\nhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html\n\nAll were Apollo missions\n\nNeil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969 \nEdwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969 \nCharles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969 (may have been scheduled to land again on Apollo 20, though unlikely as he had already walked on the Moon) \nAlan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969 \nAlan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971 \nEdgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971 \nDavid Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971 \nJames Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971 \nJohn Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing) \nCharles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 \nEugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 (also on Apollo 10, without landing) \nHarrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972
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No, Titan is a group of gods. The moons of Uranus are named from people in shakespears plays.\n\nAt first, the Greeks and Romans thought the planets were gods, since their positons moved seemingly at their will. So they named them Jupiter, Mars, etc. So the pattern stuck. Most moons and planets are named after mythological figures.\n\nNOTE: Pluto is -not- named after a cartoon dog, but after the mythical god of the underworld.
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The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission. On July 20, 1969, while their teammate Michael Collins controlled the command module "Columbia," Armstrong, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin, landed the lunar module, "Eagle" on the surface of the moon at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This article covers the events immediately surrounding the successful moon landing.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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Aphrodite Goddess of beauty and love. \nΑπόλλων (Apollōn) Apollo God of the light, music, healing, prophecy, and poetry. \nAρης Ares God of war, primarily violent war and bloodshed. \nAρτεμις Artemis Goddess of the hunt and the moon. \nAθηνᾶ Athena Goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war. \nΔημητρa Demeter Goddess of agriculture. \nHφαιστος (Hēphaistos) Hephaestus God of fire and the forge. \nHρα Hera Goddess of marriage and the family, wife of Zeus. \nEρμhς Hermes God of travel, thieves, and commerce. Messenger of the gods. \nΕστία Hestia Goddess of the hearth and domestic life. Eventually replaced by Dionysus. \nΠοσειδων Poseidon God of the sea. \nΖεύς Zeus \n\n\nThat's more than 8.  I deserve bonus points.
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The above answer was quite lengthy with added content.\n\nIt appears that "moon" is old english.\n\nThe "luna" part is Latin.  It was in Roman times, that the moon made people crazy, hence the word "lunatic".
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The greeks developed much of the basics of science, math, philosophy and government that we have today.  The planets are named either from the greek or roman names for the olympian gods.  Many words come from greek.  The fastest god, Hermes, or Mercury who was the messenger god is where we get the modern name for element number 80 formerly known as quick silver.  Everyone knows who cupid is.  The greek name for cupid is Eros from which we get the term erotic.  The early space missions were named after the gods mercury and apollo.  Many of the constellations are named for characters in greek myths such as pegasus, orion and cassiopea.  \n\nmuch of our culture comes from the classic greek and roman socities and their early democracies and knowing the stories tells us about their lives and civilizations, their values and customs.  For example one continuing theme in greek mythology is a hero is often struck down for thinking himself equal to the gods, a sin called huberis.  One of the themes is that man has a place beneath gods.  Perhaps this is a way to keep a people in line and perhaps some of our modern judeo christian myths are designed to do the same.  When the god Prometheus defied the king of the gods Zeus by giving man fire he was kicked out of heaven and bound to a rock where vultures ate him alive.  but being immortal he would heal every day and go through the same horror again.  when Lucifer challenged the throne of God he was cast down into Hell.  When Jonas refused to follow God's instruction he got to spend some quality time learning about the digestive tract of a whale.\n\n   Some myths talk about the Greek idea of heroism.  Odysseus, while traped on circe's island is offered immortality and rejects it on the grounds that what good is bravery if he can't die.
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nothing... your car nowadays have a more complicated computer system then that lunar module.  I hope your asking about the first one that land on the moon
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I've already done this kind of project for myself, so I like to think I know what I'm doing and that I'm correct in my mythology, I love mythology. By the time I'm done, this answer will be quite long and will read both as the social pages and genealogical survey of the Ancient Gods. I have to say, unfortunately, that several of the answers previous to my own are incorrect. Allow me to offer the proper "translations" for you and I hope you find them helpful.\n\nSun = In some myths, Helios is the sun itself, Apollo is the god of the sun, drawing the sun behind his chariot across the Daytime sky. (Oddly enough, Apollo is both Greek and Roman)\n\nMercury = Hermes, the male messenger of the gods. His counterpart, Hebe, a daughter of Zeus and Hera, served as female messenger, cupbearer, or handmaiden to Hera, depending on the myth.\nMercury has no known satelites.\n\nVenus = Aphrodite, the goddess of love.\nVenus has no satelites.\n\nEarth = Gaia, the original mother; a Titan goddess.\nEarth's satelite = The Moon: In some myths, Selene is the moon itself, and sister to Helios. The twin sister of Apollo, Artemis, is the goddess of the moon, and draws the moon behind her chariot across the Nighttime sky. (Artemis is called Diana in Roman myths)\n\nMars = Ares, the god of war. \nMars's satelites = Phobos and Deimos: sons by Aphrodite are Fear and Panic.\n\nJupiter = Zeus, seemingly god of most everything else that isn't designated to another deity.\nJupiter's satelites = Metis, goddess of Wisdom, mother of Athena; Adrastea, goddess of reward, punishment and divine retribution, daughter of Ananke; Amalthea, in some myths, the nymph or her goat who nursed the infant Zeus; Thebe, a nymph; Io, a mortal maiden; Europa, a mortal princess, the mother of Minos; Ganymede, a mortal boy, whom Zeus incorporated as male cupbearer to the gods; Callisto, a maid attending Artemis, the mother of Arcas. Through circumstances, Callisto and Arcas were transformed into the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor; Leda, the mortal mother of 2 sets of twins...by Zeus, Pollux and Helen (of Troy), by her husband, Castor and Clytemnestra. Castor and Pollux are the constellation Gemini; Himalia, a nymph; Lysithea, daughter of Oceanus; Elara, the mother of a giant; Ananke, goddess of Destiny, mother of Adrastea and the Fates; Carme, goddess of grain, mother of Britomartis; Pasiphae, the wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur; Sinope, a mortal woman.\n\nSaturn = Cronos, the god of agriculture, father of Zeus (along with Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon).\nSaturn's satelites = Pan, a faun (part human, part goat) god of the woods; Atlas, a Titan, who bears the heavens on his shoulder, brother to Prometheus and Epimetheus; Prometheus, the one who brought fire to mankind, and paid for it; Pandora, the one who opened her infamous Box, wife to Epimetheus; Epimetheus, mythologically, he made the animals of the world, a task so wonderful his brother Prometheus tried to beat his efforts; Janus, the god of gates and doorways, with a face pointing in 2 directions; Mimas, a Titan slain by Heracles*; Enceladus, a Titan supposedly buried under Mt. Etna; Tethys, a Titan goddess of the Sea; Telesto, a sea nymph, daughter of Tethys; Calypso, goddess of Silence, Dione, depending on the myth, she and Zeus are the parents of Aphrodite (in other myths, Aphrodite was born of the foam of the sea where it churned the dismembered parts of Uranus); Helene, an Amazon; Rhea, wife of Saturn, mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus; Titan, giant children of Gaia and Uranus; Hyperion, a Titan, father of Helios and Selene; Iapetus, a Titan, father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas; Phoebe, grandmother to Apollo and Artemis.\n\nUranus = Ouranos, god of the heavens.\nUranus's satelites (don't seem to be steeping in mythological context, but in Shakespeare) = Cordelia, "King Lear"; Ophelia, "Ham
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Enceladus is one of Saturn's moons (6th largest), named after a Greek mythological giant, so it comes from Ancient Greek presumably.
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Yes. The moon is a satellite of the earth and it, along with all the other planets and moons in our planetary system go about  making up our solar system.\n\nSolar system meaning our planetary system rotating around our sun and our sun being referred to as sol, thus becomes our solar system. \n\nGood question, \n\nDarryl S.
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The moon is known as the moon, but there are also other names given to it such as: Luna by the Romans and Selene and Artemis by the Greeks. It is also known as one of Earth's satellite. It is the second largest object in the sky and orbit 384,400km from the Earth. Its diametre is 3,476km and it has a mass of 7.35kg. As far as I know there are no other name for the earth's moon persay.
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missions took their name from the Ancient Greek God Apollo, the god of Solar Light and Sun.In addition, all astronomy terms are Greek.
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The Saturn 5 was the rocket that carried the Apollo astronauts into space and eventually to the moon.  Some of the Apollo missions just to orbit were carried via the Saturn 1B.  Since the orbital mission did not need the extra fuel to boost it clear the moon, the Saturn 1B worked well for an orbital launcher.
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After looking through countless references I can only give you a vague answer to your question. Orion was named by the ancient Greeks; according to their mythology he was a giant hunter and one of the few male friends of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Depending on what version of the story you hear, Orion gets killed by a giant scorpion (Scorpius). Artemis mourns his death and places him in the sky to commemorate him. \n\nThe origins of the names "Big Dipper" and "Little Dipper" are even more difficult to come by. The Big Dipper seems to just be the common name for the asterism because that's what it looks like. The Big Dipper has been called everything from "the Plow", to "the Weasel" to "the Drinking Gourd" and of course is also part of the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear) again from Greek Mythology. \n\nI can only guess that Ursa Minor, (the Little Bear) was named the Little Dipper because it too kind of looks like one, but also because the two patterns of stars are associated with each other from Greek Mythology. So when the Great Bear was called "the Big Dipper" it just made sense to call the Little Bear the "Little Dipper". But really Tom, your guess is as good as mine. \n\nCheck out http://www.csulb.edu/~gordon/constel.html for a list of origin stories for other constellations and asterisms.
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Scientifics of "modern decades and times certainly did not"name the moons"But modern definition defines them as "Natural satellites of any planet".\nWhich are a matter of mass of orbs which orbit around whichever planet that has them.They are usually named after greek gods and or latin words usually mythological people or things that are deemed as "great"unique or noteworthy OR Great ancient likephilosophers and astonomers and mathmaticians like Copernicus,.ecetera
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In Greek mythology, Selene (Σελήνη, "moon") (the Roman moon goddess being Luna) was an ancient lunar deity, and the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia.\n\nEtc, etc. Check out the site...