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[i]Standing there on the deck of the USS Anchorage, my mind couldn’t help but drift back nearly forty years. The date was July 24, 1975, and I was a NASA recovery engineer aboard the USS New Orleans west of the Hawaiian Islands. We were all set for the return of the crew from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a joint mission with what was then known as the Soviet Union. From 1968 to 1975, I had been on the scene for eight Apollo splashdowns – Apollo 8, 10, 16, 17 and all three Skylab flights, as well as ASTP. Thirty-nine years after that last Apollo landing, I saw the ninth splashdown of my career...[/i]
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