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9 lut 2021 · On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard their Command Module (CM) Kitty Hawk in the south Pacific Ocean. Recovery forces aboard the prime recovery ship U.S.S.
- 50 Years Ago: Apollo 14 Splashdown and Recovery
On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon-landing mission...
- Navy Recovery Ships for Human Spaceflight Missions - NASA
Navy Recovery Ships for Human Spaceflight Missions. A...
- Apollo 14: Mission Details - NASA
The actual landing point was only 1.02 nautical miles off...
- 50 Years Ago: Apollo 14 Splashdown and Recovery
On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon-landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard their Command Module (CM) Kitty Hawk in the south Pacific Ocean. Recovery forces aboard the prime recovery ship U.S.S.
7 lut 2003 · Navy Recovery Ships for Human Spaceflight Missions. A water-level view of the Apollo 17 Command Module (CM) floating in the Pacific Ocean following splashdown and prior to recovery in December 1972. The prime recovery ship, the USS Ticonderoga, is in the background. Credits: NASA. NASA Communications. Feb 07, 2003. Article. Contents.
Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, ... After recovery by the ship USS New Orleans, [117] the crew was flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna, then to Honolulu, ...
8 lip 2009 · The actual landing point was only 1.02 nautical miles off its targeted point of about 765 nautical miles south of Samoa, and four miles from the prime recovery ship, the USS New Orleans. The mission duration from liftoff to splashdown was 216 hours, two minutes.
15 cze 2021 · The Apollo 14 crew splashed down Feb. 9 in the South Pacific and was recovered by USS New Orleans. In the end, Shepard and Mitchell gathered 94 pounds (43 kilograms) of lunar samples that...
The collection contains mission briefings, operational orders, maps, dispatches and other information relating to the manned space flight recovery operations conducted by the US Navy during the...
