Splashdown
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Splashdown
Author: Don Blair
language: en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date: 2010-07-28
This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navy’s role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherd’s initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Splashdown: NASA, the Navy, and Space Flight Recovery takes the reader through a detailed explanation of how recovery forces on land, sea, and in the air were deployed across the globe to be trained for any and all emergencies and eventualities. This book gives concise histories of all prime recovery ships as well as back-up ships in both manned and unmanned missions, with every ship’s history followed by a retelling of their space missions.
Splashdown
Cassie's Uncle Bill takes her flying to a Pacific island, but the small plane's engines fail over the ocean, and they have to land on the water. After putting on their life jackets and ditching the plane, Cassie and Uncle Bill wait in the water for hours until they are rescued. While they are waiting, they have a close and fascinating encounter with a whale.
Burn Up or Splash Down
A survival manual for people and families who are returning to their home country.