On July 24, 1969, Dick Powers was a 23-year-old Navy lieutenant on the Apollo 11 Recovery ship USS Hornet. Picked by the carrier’s captain to serve as the aide to President Nixon, Powers recounts the ...
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 ...
MINNEAPOLIS — It took technology and teamwork to put Americans on the moon back in July of 1969, in what was the culmination of a space race that had transfixed the nation for a decade. It would also ...
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 ...
Pictured is Dunkirk resident Thomas McTigue at the original Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) from the Apollo 11 mission, 50 years later now a permanent feature of the USS Hornet at Alameda Naval Air ...
The ship and its crew recovered the Apollo 8 capsule on Dec. 27, 1968. Patriots Point shared some pictures of the special anniversary. That capsule was the first to carry people near the moon. Apollo ...
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 ...
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 ...
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