SS Statendam (1956)
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|Ship owner=*Holland America Line (1957-1982)
|Ship operator= |Ship registry={{flag|the Netherlands}}1957-1982 |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=N.V. Dok- en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam{{cite web |url=http://www.vdleek.nl/Hal/Vloot/Statendam.html |title= Statendam |accessdate=2010-05-28 |date=2005-06-10 }} |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=12 June 1956 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service=1957-1995 |Ship out of service=1995 |Ship fate=Scrapped in Alang, India in 2004 |Ship identification={{IMO Number|5339212}}{{cite web |url=http://members.shaw.ca/erik.langeland/Ships/PassengerShips/PassengerShips_NameIndex.html |title= Index of Passenger Ships |accessdate=2010-05-28 |date=2008-08-18 }} |Ship notes=Steam turbines were replaced by diesels in 1987 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship tonnage=24,294 gross tons |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|642|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|81|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship sail plan= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed={{convert|16.5|kn}} |Ship crew= |Ship notes= }} |
SS Statendam was an ocean liner of the Holland America Line built in 1957. She was bought by the Paquet group in 1982 and renamed Rhapsody and sold again to the Lelakis group in 1986. Later she became part of the Regency Cruises fleet and was named Regent Star in the Regency fleet. She was laid up after the Regency Cruises bankruptcy and remained in poor condition for many years. She was scrapped in Alang, India in 2004.
Apollo 17 cruise
The ship was the venue for a conference on space exploration held to coincide with the December, 1972 launch of Apollo 17. Panelists included science fiction authors, scientists, and others ranging from Isaac Asimov to Norman Mailer to Katherine Anne Porter. The cruise had only 100 paying fares, only 40 of whom paid the additional conference fee, and Holland-America Line lost an estimated $250,000 on the venture.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/katherineannepor0000unru|url-access=registration|title=Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist|author=Darlene Harbour Unrue|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=2005|isbn=9781578067770}} G. Harry Stine characterizes it as the "Ship of Fools" expedition (presumably influenced by the Porter novel). A key organizer of the expedition was Richard C. Hoagland, while the symposium moderator was Hugh Downs; both would later play roles in the "pro-space movement", which space historian Michael Michaud believes found a nascent constituency at the conference.{{cite book|url=http://www.nss.org/resources/library/spacemovement/chapter03.htm#fools|title=Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84|author=Michael A. G. Michaud|publisher=Praeger Publishers|year=1986}}
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