APOLLO 11 RECOVERY 50th ANNIVERSARY
 
This webpage is a tribute to the over fifty LRD personnel who directly supported the historic Apollo 11 mission.
While the Apollo 11 mission was accomplished during the eight days of July 16-24, 1969, the design and testing of recovery equipment including boilerplates and spacecraft, crew egress procedures development and training, operations planning with the Department of Defense, preflight operations simulations, and mission as well as postflight operations required years of dedication by LRD.
The Apollo 11 Command Module with astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969, at 12:50 p.m. EDT, 13 miles from the prime recovery ship USS Hornet (CV-12). Because of bad weather in the target area, the landing point was changed by about 250 miles. Apollo 11 landed 13 degrees, 19 minutes north latitude and 169 degrees, nine minutes west longitude.
- Apollo 11 Recovery Summary and Transcript- from the NASA History Office
- Apollo 11 Recovery video - from YouTube channel Lunarmodule5
- Apollo 11 In Realtime - audio, film, and commentary synced to Mission Elapsed Time (MET) - splashdown and recovery starts at MET 195:18:18
- 50 Years Ago: Hornet + 3 - The Recovery of Apollo 11 - from NASA History
- MSC Organization Chart 1968
- 1969: John Hirasaki, NASA engineer who was in quarantine with Apollo 11 astronauts (ABC Video)
- 1969: Parrish Hirasaki, a heat shield specialist for the Apollo 11 program (ABC Video)
- The Project Apollo Image Archive - Apollo 11
- Apollo 11 Mission Report - recovery operations summarized on pages 169-173
- Hornet Plus Three: The Story of the Apollo 11 Recovery - excellent book on Apollo 11 recovery by Bob Fish, director of the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum in Alameda, California
- Apollo 11: Quarantine - Hornet Museum Apollo 11 quarantine webpage
- Recovery Operations Panel CSPAN broadcast of Space Center Houston's Apollo 11 commemoration including Denny Holt, Milt Heflin, Mel Richmond, and Terry Watson on July 20, 2019
- Apollo 11 Recovery Operation - presentation by Apollo 11 Lead UDT Swimmer, Clancy Hatleberg, at the Seattle Museum of Flight on September 14, 2019
- Apollo 11 Recovery Operation - KCBS Apollo 11 Hornet radio interview with UDT Swimmer, John Wolfram, with added photos on November 14, 2019
- U.S. Navy Photographer Milt Putnam Apollo 11 Recovery Interview - South Carolina ETV
Apollo 11 Recovery 50th Anniversary T-Shirt
(Design by Terry Watson)
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