Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

The last time humans returned from space to the Pacific Ocean was during the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission with ... to sharing them with you post-mission splashdown." Proud to be able to bring to ...

ABOARD U.S.S. HORNET -- The triumphant Apollo 12 astronauts finished their million ... 24-mile-an-hour wind and 11-foot seas right after splashdown, but the astronauts had it upright in five ...

Left: The Apollo 12 Command Module Yankee Clipper descends on its three main parachutes seconds before splashdown. Middle: A recovery helicopter hovers over Yankee Clipper in the Stable II, or apex ...

Then it was the ship that recovered the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 astronauts from the ocean when they returned from their trips to the Moon. Now it’s a floating maritime museum showcasing ...

SpaceX brought home the four crew members of Polaris Dawn with a splashdown landing off the coast ... than 10 minutes each while connected with a 12-foot-long tether. Since the Crew Dragon does ...

The five-day mission saw the four commercial astronauts complete a list of historic firsts: They traveled further than anyone has gone in more than 50 years, since the last Apollo missions.

They were recovered by the USS Hornet, a Navy aircraft carrier that repeated the job for Apollo 12 four months later. The Hornet is now part of a museum in Alameda, California, with a splashdown ...

They were recovered by the USS Hornet, a Navy aircraft carrier that repeated the job for Apollo 12 four months later. The Hornet is now part of a museum in Alameda, California, with a splashdown ...

Lunar Module Intrepid lifted off from the Moon on November 20 and docked with the command module, which subsequently traveled back to Earth. The Apollo 12 mission ended on November 24 with a ...

ABC, CBS, and NBC spent, collectively, between $11 million and $12 million on Apollo 11 coverage and covered the mission from Sunday morning until Monday evening. May 25, 1961 - President John F.