Why Is Apollo Important In Our Life

Do you like music,art, entertainment, and the sun? Well that is the job of Apollo and he helps bring what we love so much today to life. Apollo was given a golden lyre to help him pass time as a child as many of us today are given toy drums to help us pass time as well and we love it so much that some of us pursue a career in music. Well if you are even human than you need the sun to live and Apollo helps make our day brighter and helps the universe sustain life. That is why Apollo is important and how he helps us every day.

Apollo is the God of truth,healing, prophecy, poetry/literature, and most popularly music.Apollo is a twin with Artemis (Sister) they are the children of Zeus and Leto. Apollo was born on Delos, Leto promised the Delians that if they needed something Apollo would always help them and favor them in a bad situation.Apollo symbols are The Lyre, Laurel, Wreath, Python, Raven, and Bow and Arrows. How did Apollo come to be? According to GreekMythology.com The Goddess Hera found out that Zeus was having a
That is why I think that NASA used the name Apollo for the space program because Apollo was useful in astronomy and was the god of the sun which is what the whole galaxy revolves around. According to history.nasa.gov Abe Silverstein came up with is because Apollo was the God who set out for the discovery of Mercury and According to the Legends of Apollo he actually discovered Mercury and thus gve it its name but told no one because the world was no that advanced yet. That is why I think that Apollo was the name for the mission and that is why it actually was the name for the mission. However, I do think that Apollo is a good name for the spacecrafts and the overall mission because NASA’s mission is to find out what makes the galaxy work and it starts with the sun which Apollo is the God