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...Gold Cabinet, the smallest of the staterooms, gilders used a special "Albertina" mix of 23-carat gold plus one-carat silver and copper to renew the extravagant wall paneling to its original sheen, while the Hall of the Muses, a former Habsburg ballroom, has breathtaking newly restored sculptures of Apollo and the Nine Muses. Some of Europe's most acclaimed architects and designers took part in the Albertina reconstruction. To use the palace's original main entrance atop the bastion, 11 m above street level, Austrian Hans Hollein's design incorporated an elevator and escalator to carry an expected...
...first out. Since Armstrong was assigned to handle the camera, most of the pictures from that famous mission are of Aldrin, with Armstrong seen only as a reflection on the colonel's helmet. With Michael Collins, who piloted the command module above them, the astronauts of Apollo 11 became latter-day Lindberghs, receiving parades and honors in 22 countries. Twelve other men would walk on the moon, the last in 1972. --By Douglas Brinkley
Death comes quickly in space, unless it comes very slowly. The crew of the shuttle Challenger is thought--or hoped--to have suffered little. Crew members of Apollo 13, had they not made it home, would have needed days to breathe up all their air and suffocate. Ever since the crack-up of the shuttle Columbia last month, NASA has wanted to know how the astronauts on that doomed ship met their end--believing that the precise sequence of events on the crew decks would reveal a lot about the precise sequence of breakdowns throughout the ship...
...funds, will probably raise new money as well. Flag's minimum investments run $1 million to $3 million. But other funds of funds let you in for as little as $250,000. On the buyout side, the inflow of money has been fairly steady, with highly regarded institutional managers Apollo Advisers and Blackstone Group having raised money. Wealthy individuals can get access to buyout portfolios directly or through funds of funds as well, with similar minimums...
...where their two-hour freestyle set impressed the judges enough to earn them the job, as well as a respectable billing on the flyer. Their collective musical experience includes years of crafting lyrics, battling freestyle in school cafeterias and working the Black Students’ Association’s Apollo Nights. Though they hadn’t originally planned on auditioning as a group, they traveled to the audition together and quickly decided that four hip-hop heads were better than...