The award would be presented to each crewmember from all 12 three-man Apollo missions, including the Apollo 7 and 9 Earth-orbit flights as well as the Apollo 1 crew, which perished in a launch pad fire in 1967.

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Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Activision Blizzard, Inc. ( NASD: ATVI) is up about 3.4%, Akamai Technologies Inc ( NASD: AKAM) is up about 1.7%, and Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is up by about 2.1%.

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Apollo's have slid 24.7% in the year since their IPO.

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In Friday trading, Apollo Investment Corporation shares are currently off about 0.7% on the day.

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