On July 24, 1969, Dick Powers was a 23-year-old Navy lieutenant on the Apollo 11 Recovery ship USS Hornet. Picked by the carrier’s captain to serve as the aide to President Nixon, Powers recounts the ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The crew of the USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty destroying mines in Vietnam and when it got the call in early June of 1969. It was a totally different assignment that ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – The USS Yorktown aided in recovery efforts for the first crewed spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon when it returned to Earth on December 27, 1968. Apollo 8 ...
It was 1969. The summer of Woodstock. Bryan Adams getting his first real six-string. Americans were watching the final moments of the Space Race play out on TV, straight to the finish — America’s ...
Significant artifacts of space history that nobody has seen for a half century might have been lost forever if not for Michael Reese II, who recently rediscovered a box full of photographs of the ...
MINNEAPOLIS — It took technology and teamwork to put Americans on the moon back in July of 1969, in what was the culmination of a space race that had transfixed the nation for a decade. It would also ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The crew of the USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty destroying mines in Vietnam and when it got the call in early June of 1969. It was a totally different assignment that ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The crew of the USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty destroying mines in Vietnam and when it got the call in early June of 1969. It was a totally different assignment that ...
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