On July 24, 1969, President Nixon was on hand on the USS Hornet (commanded by Admiral John McCain) to watch the splashdown of the Apollo 11 capsule and return of the Apollo 11 astronauts to earth. Once back on the ship, in their quarantine van, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike C...
After jettisoning the LM, the Apollo spacecraft was ready to return home.NASAused the SM's propulsion system to insert the spacecraft into atransearth injection(TEI), which means Apollo would be heading back toEarthin a trajectory that allowed for a controlled descent into the Pacific Ocean....
Thomas K. Mattingly, a NASA astronaut who helped guide Apollo 13 back to Earth after the spacecraft was damaged in space, died on October 31 at the age of 87. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Mattingly's death on Thursday, describing Mattingly as a hero and praising th...
Apollo 8 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 27, 1968. The safe return of the first men to have traveled beyond Earth's orbit was treated as a major event. The next day's New York Times front pagefeatured a headlineexpressing NASA's confidence: "A Lunar Landing In Summer Pos...
Humanity’s return to its natural fully awakened and fully conscious state has never been in doubt.
Apollo 14 returned to Earth on Feb 9, 1971, splashing down approximately 760 miles south of American Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean. The astronauts were soon recovered by the crew of the USS New Orleans recovery ship. On March 23, 1971, the Apollo 14 crew spoke to Kennedy Space Center...
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 13 crewmates celebrated the 51st anniversary of their safe return to Earth by toasting ...
While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was intended to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and perhaps even on a lunar landing. The program was named after the Greek god of light by NASA ...
Return to Earth "As the Challenger leaves the surface of the moon, we are conscious not of what we leave behind, but of what lies before us," read the statement from the White House, as was radioed by Mission Control in Houston to the Apollo 17 astronauts. "This may be the last tim...
It states that the paper focused on the basic architecture of Apollo spacecraft that is connected to a command and service module (CSM) and lunar module (LM) from and return to Earth. It mentions on the technological upgrades of the lunar lander including high efficiency propellants. INSET: ...