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Author	Topic: Photo of the week 246f (July 24, 2009)
heng44 Member Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001	posted 07-24-2009 12:10 AM Forty years ago today, President Richard Nixon welcomed the Apollo 11 astronauts back to earth aboard the USS Hornet. Inside the Mobile Quarantine Facility are (left to right) Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The Hornet’s chaplain is leading them in prayer. Collins later wrote that at this moment he was thinking: "Greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation? Jesus Christ!" Ed Hengeveld
gliderpilotuk Member Posts: 3398 From: London, UK Registered: Feb 2002	posted 07-24-2009 04:13 AM I just wonder whether the same thing will occur when the next astronauts return from the Moon?
ejectr Member Posts: 1751 From: Killingly, CT Registered: Mar 2002	posted 07-24-2009 06:16 AM No...Nixon isn't alive anymore.
ea757grrl Member Posts: 729 From: South Carolina Registered: Jul 2006	posted 07-24-2009 08:17 AM A side note: Hornet's chaplain, John Piirto, seen next to President Nixon, was the stand-in for the President during the rehearsals prior to recovery. The book "Hornet Plus Three" has a picture of a smiling, laughing Piirto at the microphones during the dry-runs. jodie

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