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The ship was sunk as a target in a COMSUBPAC ship sinking exercise on 6 June 2002, off the coast of Southern California, in 2,020 fathoms (3,700 m) at After being hit by several Maverick , Harpoon missiles , and general-purpose bombs, the ex- Okinawa was finally sunk by a Mk 48 torpedo fired by the USS Portsmouth .
At that time, some astronauts decide to be hoisted aboard a helicopter for a ride to the recovery ship and some decided to stay with the spacecraft and be lifted aboard ship via crane. All Gemini and Apollo flights (Apollos 7 to 17) used the former, while Mercury missions from Mercury 6 to Mercury 9, as well as all Skylab missions and Apollo ...
Apollo 6 (April 4, 1968), also known as AS-502, was the third and final uncrewed flight in the United States' Apollo Program and the second test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. It qualified the Saturn V for use on crewed missions, and it was used beginning with Apollo 8 in December 1968.
This category contains entries of ships used to recover space capsules and astronauts from various space programs. Pages in category "Space capsule recovery ships" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Princeton recovering Apollo 10 in 1969. In April 1969 she was designated the prime recovery ship for Apollo 10, the lunar mission which paved the way for Apollo 11 and the first crewed landing on the Moon. Apollo 10, carrying astronauts Eugene Cernan, John Young, and Thomas P. Stafford, was recovered in the South Pacific on 26 May.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
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She was the prime recovery vessel for the unmanned Apollo 4 mission and on 9 November 1967 recovered the spacecraft which had splashed down 10 mi (16 km) from the ship. On 4 November 1966, Bennington embarked upon her next to last 7th Fleet assignment.