ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The crew of the USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty destroying mines in Vietnam and when it got the call in early June of 1969. It was a totally different assignment that ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – The USS Yorktown aided in recovery efforts for the first crewed spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon when it returned to Earth on December 27, 1968. Apollo 8 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 13 (April 11 -17, 1970) was planned as the third lunar landing mission, but an explosion in the Apollo Service Module caused the mission to ...
The USS Hornet aircraft carrier has led three lives. First, it fought in some of World War II’s toughest battles. Then it was the ship that recovered the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 astronauts from the ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Mel Richmond was a Scientist for the Apollo Landing and Recovery Division in NASA with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2019 Forum. Four former ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Terry Watson was a Scientist for the Apollo Landing and Recovery Division in NASA with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2019 Forum. Four former ...