Apollo Applications Program

Japanese: アポロ応用計画 - あぽろおうようけいかく
Apollo Applications Program

…Skylab is an abbreviation of sky laboratory. It is also called the Apollo Applications Project because it used materials from the Apollo program. In other words, the main part of Skylab was a modified fourth stage of the huge Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo program, and was a workroom with a space of 270 m3. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Apollo Applications Program" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…Skylabはsky laboratoryの略。アポロ計画の資材を応用したのでアポロ応用計画とも呼ばれる。すなわち,スカイラブの主要部はアポロ計画で用いられた巨大なサターンV型ロケットの4段目を改造したもので,270m3の空間をもつ作業室であった。…

※「アポロ応用計画」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Apologia - Apologia

>>:  Apollo spacecraft - Apollo spacecraft (English name)

Recommend

Yoshii [town] - Yoshii

A former town in Ukiha District, southeastern Fuku...

Breast milk - Bonyu

It means "mother's milk". From the ...

Mount Hotaka

Located on the border between Nagano and Gifu pre...

Projectile motion

The motion of an object thrown into space with un...

Nohgaku

Noun: A Japanese performing art. From the Northern...

Strymonidia w-album

A butterfly of the family Lycaenidae in the order ...

Rock plug - bysmalith

An intrusive rock body is bounded by faults from t...

medicine

... In Japan, where the separation of medical and...

Awaseuchi - Awaseuchi

...Except for Shiki Sanban (Okina), each piece is...

Eispickel

…A type of mountaineering equipment used for bala...

Kaoru Osanai - Kaoru Osanai

Director, playwright, novelist. Born in Hiroshima...

Tainos

… 【history】 [Early colonial period] Cuba was disc...

Rise time

…Usually abbreviated as IC, it is defined as “a c...

Coelogyne corymbosa (English spelling)

…[Koichi Ejiri]. … *Some of the terminology that ...

yardangs

...The former is an erosion process that occurs w...