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Apollo Education Group, Inc. Apollo Education Group, Inc. is an American corporation based in the South Phoenix area of Phoenix, Arizona, with an additional corporate office in Chicago, Illinois. [1] It is privately-owned by a consortium of investors including The Vistria Group, LLC and funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC.
Gregory W. Cappelli (born c. 1968 [1]) is an American business executive who specializes in national education policy. He is the CEO of Apollo Education Group, a Fortune 1000 company [2] [3] and the parent company of the University of Phoenix, as well as chairman of Apollo Global, [4] a subsidiary company that invests money in educational ...
Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy (1798) by Charles Meynier. Apollo[ a] is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and ...
1952–1970 (active) 1970–1982 (reserve) Signature. Michael "Mike" Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was also a test pilot and major ...
Apollo program. The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men [ 2] on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
Apollo 4 →. Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program,[1]the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbitaltest of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabin fire ...
List of Apollo missions. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1] The program used the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles to lift the Command/Service Module (CSM) and Lunar ...
Gene Cernan. Eugene Andrew Cernan ( / ˈsɜːrnən /; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the 11th human being to walk on the Moon. As he re-entered the Apollo Lunar Module after Harrison Schmitt ...