"This is what all the astronauts trained on for every lunar landing." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — ...

Fifty-one years to the day after they survived an explosion on the way to the moon, astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise came face-to-face with their post-splashdown selves in Houston. The two Apollo ...

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 ...

Spacecraft Recovery Program. Departmente of Defense support ; DDMS Recovery Support overview ; U.S. Air Force overview ; U.S. Navy overview -- The learning curve. Initial preparations ; Project ...

A small team (Appendix 1) was chartered by NASA to make a top-level assessment of the viability of using the Apollo Command and Service Modules the basis for a Crew Return Vehicle, and potentially for ...

Hear firsthand about the final step of the Apollo 11 mission: recovery of the astronauts and spacecraft The challenge of sending astronauts to the Moon’s surface for the first time and bringing them ...