50 lat temu – koniec misji Apollo 11 BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 24 LIPCA 2019
Lot powrotny na Ziemię – misja Apollo 11 / Credits – NASA, Raiz Space
(...) Wodowanie w wodach Pacyfiku nastąpiło 24 lipca 1969 roku o godzinie 17:50 CET. Załoga misji Apollo 11 została podjęta przez amerykański lotniskowiec USS Hornet. Po tej misji załoga przeszła kwarantannę, choć w tamtych czasach praktycznie nikt już nie uważał, że na Księżycu może utrzymywać się jakiekolwiek życie. (...)
Nagrania z lądowania misji Apollo 11 / Credits – John Wolfram
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https://kosmonauta.net/2019/07/50-lat-temu-koniec-misji-apollo-11/This Week in NASA History: Apollo 11 Splashes Down – July 24, 1969July 24, 2019
This week in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew successfully returned to Earth following their eight-day mission to the lunar surface. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, 13 miles from the recovery ship USS Hornet. Donning biological isolation garments before leaving the spacecraft, the crew went directly into the Mobile Quarantine Facility on the aircraft carrier, their home for the following 21 days. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective of landing men on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth was accomplished. This July, in a series of special events, NASA is marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program -- the historic effort that sent the first U.S. astronauts into orbit around the Moon in 1968, and landed a dozen astronauts on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/this-week-in-nasa-history-apollo-11-splashes-down-july-24-1969.html50 Years Ago Today: Apollo 11 Command Module Recovered After SplashdownJuly 24, 2019
The Apollo 11 Command Module is hoisted aboard the USS Hornet, the prime recovery vessel for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The splashdown took place at 12:49 p.m. ET, July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii, only 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/50-years-ago-today-apollo-11-command-module-recovered-after-splashdown50 Years Ago: Hornet + 3 – The Recovery of Apollo 11July 24, 2019
President Nixon arriving aboard Arlington.On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 was 47,000 miles from Earth and rapidly accelerating toward its home planet when astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins awoke for their last day in space, preparing for their splashdown in the Pacific Ocean 950 miles southwest of Hawaii. The previous day, managers were forced to move the splashdown point by 250 miles to the northeast due to inclement weather at the original recovery site. The aircraft carrier USS
Hornet (CVS-12), the prime recovery ship for Apollo 11, was speeding for the new splashdown target area. Overcast skies made stellar navigation impossible, so
Hornet used the ancient mariner’s technique of dead reckoning to arrive on time and at the proper position to recover crew and spacecraft.
Hornet’s commanding officer Capt. Carl J. Seiberlich chose the slogan
Hornet Plus 3 for the operation, signifying the safe recovery of the three Apollo 11 astronauts. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-hornet-3-the-recovery-of-apollo-11NASA Invites Media for Interviews Aboard Apollo 11 Recovery Ship on Moon Landing AnniversaryJuly 12, 2019
Unites States President Richard M. Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Already confined to the Mobile Quarantine Facility are (left to right) Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 splashed down at 11:49 a.m. (CDT), July 24 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet. Credits: NASA(...) The USS Hornet is a World War II-era aircraft carrier that was the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 11 crew upon return from the Moon in 1969. It subsequently retrieved the Apollo 12 crew at splashdown several months later. Designated a National Historic Landmark, the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum has on display numerous artifacts from the Apollo missions that media can use as supporting visuals. Media will also be able to access the flight deck where the helicopter carrying the astronauts landed and President Richard Nixon greeted their return. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ames/nasa-invites-media-for-interviews-aboard-apollo-11-recovery-shipApollo 11’s Return to Earth Rooted in Aeronautics ResearchJuly 24, 2019
The lifting body aircraft studied the feasibility of maneuvering and landing an aerodynamic craft designed for reentry from space. Sitting on the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base in 1968 are, from left, the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. Credits: NASA(...) With Columbia committed to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, thunderstorms formed in the primary recovery area, so the crew steered their capsule toward a clear area where the USS Hornet was waiting to welcome them home.
The use of lifting body technology is just one example which underscores the significant contributions of those who conducted aviation research even before NASA existed, and who laid the foundation for Project Apollo and the nation’s space program as a whole. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/aero/apollo-11-return-to-earth-rooted-in-aeronautics-research50 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Returns to HoustonJuly 25, 2019
A C-1A Trader aircraft takes off from the deck of Hornet carrying the first box of lunar samples en route to Johnston Island.Apollo 11 splashed down 950 miles southwest of Hawaii on July 24, 1969. The Command Module (CM) Columbia and the crew of Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins were successfully recovered and delivered aboard the prime recovery ship the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12). Requirements to prevent back contamination of the Earth with any possible lunar microorganisms made the Apollo 11 recovery the most complicated in spaceflight history. Once aboard the carrier, the astronauts entered the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) along with NASA flight surgeon Dr. William R. Carpentier and NASA recovery engineer John K. Hirasaki. The goal was to return the astronauts, Columbia, and the lunar samples and film magazines to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, as expeditiously as possible while maintaining the strict biological isolation protocols. (...)
Workers load Columbia aboard a transport plane at Hickam AFB.After the astronauts departed
Hornet in Pearl Harbor, workers used a crane to lift
Columbia from the carrier’s flight deck to the dock and towed it to an aircraft hangar on Ford Island, the remote location chosen because the spacecraft still contained some toxic propellants that workers drained to safe the vehicle. To preserve back-contamination protocols,
Columbia’s hatch remained sealed since the flexible tunnel connecting it to the MQF was removed. On July 29, workers loaded
Columbia and the backup MQF onto a C-133
Cargomaster aircraft at Hickam AFB. After a refueling stop on the West Coast, Columbia arrived at Ellington on July 31 and workers trucked it to the LRL, where it was towed inside the spacecraft room. The Apollo 11 astronauts retrieved personal items from the spacecraft and Hirasaki removed the spacesuits for postflight inspections. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-11-returns-to-houstonToday in 1969, the #Apollo11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, fulfilling the second half of JFK's Moonshot: "...and returning him safely to Earth."
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1551241076463255555Splashdown! The day we successfully returned to Earth, and our great military recovered us from the mighty Pacific. After quarantine, we worked to educate the world on the importance of humans in space, a calling that continues today. It was good to be home. #Apollo11 #NASA
https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1551279059946143751/After returning to Earth, the Apollo 11 astronauts spent three weeks in quarantine—the first 88 hours of it in the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF). The Apollo 11 MQF is on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center:
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/mobile-quarantine-facility/nasm_A19740677000
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1551288614893633537Kwarantanna
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