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heng44
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posted 12-27-2014 02:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Forty-six years ago today, Apollo 8 astronauts (l-r) Lovell, Anders and Borman stood next to their spacecraft aboard the recovery ship USS Yorktown after the first manned flight to the moon. It had been a week I will never forget.

SpaceyInMN
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posted 12-27-2014 05:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceyInMN   Click Here to Email SpaceyInMN     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very nice picture! Thanks for sharing. Those smiles are priceless. If only we knew the thoughts going through their heads at that moment. I envy those of you who got to witness this historical event as it happened.

LM-12
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posted 12-27-2014 09:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LM-12     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This APOLLO 8 Recovery Post Mission Report by the Commanding Officer of the USS Yorktown contains lots of information about the Apollo 8 recovery operations.
1140 Astronauts complete initial medical examination and proceed via port side to Hangar Deck to view Command Module.

carmelo
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posted 12-29-2014 02:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for carmelo   Click Here to Email carmelo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like this suit; is the flying suit mod 1962, isn't? (The "meatball" with white edge is simply classic!)

SpacemanT
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posted 01-08-2015 12:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpacemanT     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They look ecstatic!

randy
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posted 01-08-2015 08:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would look ecstatic too if I had done what they just did.

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