Hornet Plus Three
Jul 25 2009
(Photographer/Lane Hartwell)
"We been landing on a runway for 28 or more years, we can't afford to do that because we're going to go back to the moon where we were 40 years ago - thats not leadership to me we have wonderful opportunities in front of us and to go backwards is to secede, to give away leadership in an industry that is indispensable to the security of our nation, the aerospace industry" - Buzz Aldrin
In this slideshow on the USS Hornet and her participation in the US space program. We talked with Pete Sutherland, Chief Operating Office for the USS Hornet Museum about the history of the Hornet, the Apollo 11 mission and what you can expect at the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 splashdown onboard the Hornet.
The Hornet recovered the unmanned Apollo capsule CM011A used in the AS-202 mission in 1966 and served as the Prime Recovery Ship (PRS) for both the Apollo 11 and 12 missions in 1969. The unmanned AS-202 mission tested the heat shield of the Command and Service Module and was the second test flight of the Saturn IB rocket. The capsule used in that mission will be on display along with the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) used by the Apollo 14 mission and helicopters similar to those used in the Apollo 11 and Mercury recoveries.
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