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Topic: Apollo 1 prime recovery ship
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dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 10-29-2007 02:15 PM
   
The recent posting in regard to the MA-9 secondary recovery ships prompted me to ask what the prime recovery ship would have been for Apollo 1. That's a question that went through my mind a few years ago while reading, "Apollo - The Lost and Forgotten Mission." Perhaps it was mentioned in the book, but I missed it. Incidentally, "AS-204 U.S. Navy Recovery Force" covers were made for the mission but were instead cancelled at KSC on the date of the Apollo 4 flight. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 10-29-2007 03:14 PM
I believe it was the USS Essex. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 10-29-2007 11:18 PM
Thanks for the reply. Someone emailed off list with the same answer. The Essex seems like a logical answer since it was the PRS for Apollo 7. Does the Essex still exist? |
NavySpaceFan
Member Posts: 656
From: Norfolk, VA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 10-30-2007 05:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by dtemple:
Thanks for the reply. Someone emailed off list with the same answer. The Essex seems like a logical answer since it was the PRS for Apollo 7. Does the Essex still exist?
Nope, but her namesake, USS ESSEX (LHD-2) is homeported in Sasabo, Japan |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1532
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 10-30-2007 04:05 PM
Essex (CVS-9) was decommissioned in 1969 and scrapped in 1975. |
art540
Member Posts: 432
From: Orange, California USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 11-02-2007 12:44 PM
The Essex notes remind me that there are no WWII configured aircraft carriers in a museum. All are upgraded to jet aircraft with hurricane bows and angled flight decks. Enterprise should have been a good candidate but the US government is not always up to the task. |
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