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[i]Occasionally assigned to experimental programs, USS Recovery was involved in escape and recovery tests off the Virginia coast for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration's man-in-space program. In May she again operated in support of NASA's space program and directed offshore standby recovery forces during Commander Shepard's suborbital flight, America's first manned space flight. In July Recovery returned to Cape Canaveral and joined the support force for Major Grissom's suborbital flight. In 1962 returned to Florida for Lieutenant Colonel Glenn's February orbital mission.[/i]
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