Editing Apollo (section)

=== Spaceflight ===
{{See also|Apollo program}}
In spaceflight, the 1960s and 1970s [[NASA]] program for orbiting and landing astronauts on the Moon was named after [[Apollo program|Apollo]], by [[NASA]] manager [[Abe Silverstein]]:

{{blockquote|Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.<ref name="pressrelease">{{cite press release |title=Release 69-36 |date=July 14, 1969 |publisher=[[Glenn Research Center|Lewis Research Center]] |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/history/apollo_press_release.html |location=Cleveland, OH |access-date=June 21, 2012}}</ref>|author=Abe Silverstein|title=Release 69-36}}