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That's One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind. VViiggiillaanntete RRVAVAHHNNAVAVYYNNeewwslsleetttteerr August, 2019 "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." SPECIAL EDITION! This issue of the RecceNet Newsletter goes out early to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and the First Men on the Moon! The US Navy and NASA This issue of the RecceNet Newsletter goes Space… The final frontier…. out early to celebrate the 50th Anniversary These are the voyages of the US Navy… it’s lifelong of Apollo 11! mission – To seek out new life, new civilizations… And to celebrate and honor our own US To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before! (Just so you know… the word “Astronaut” is derived Navy and the part it played (and still plays!) from the Greek words “Star” and “Sailor”. So it seems in the United States Space Program. only right that the Navy is on the front lines…) The USS Hornet was on hand 40 years ago to pick up the Apollo 11 astronauts after their Columbia Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. Today, the aircraft carrier is preserved as a museum in Alameda, California. You can tell that this astronaut is a Navy man…. He has a beer in his hand!! A Historic Moment in World History USS Hornet (CVS-12) was selected by the Navy as the Prime Recovery Ship (PRS) for Apollo 11, America’s first lunar landing mission. On July 24, 1969, President Richard Nixon, ADM John S. McCain (CINCPAC) and several other dignitaries were present while Hornet recovered astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins and their spacecraft Columbia. Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two humans to walk on the Moon. The Navy units embarked on USS Hornet that participated in the Apollo 11 recovery were: Helicopter Anti-submarine Warfare Squadron Four (HS-4) flying the Sikorsky SeaKing SH-3D helicopter; Underwater Demolition Teams Eleven and Twelve (UDT-11 and UDT-12); Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAW-111 flying the Grumman E-1B Tracer, and Fleet Logistics Support Squadron VR-30 flying the Grumman C-1A Trader. The eight-day Apollo 11 mission marks the first time in mankind’s history that humans walked on the surface of another planetary body. On July 20, 1969, two astronauts, Aldrin descended the ladder several minutes later. Both Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin astronauts unveiled a plaque on the LM descent stage “Buzz” Aldrin Jr, landed on the Moon in the Lunar Module with the inscription: “Here Men From Planet Earth First (LM) Eagle. During a historic 2 ½ hour lunar surface Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D, We Came In excursion, the astronauts set up scientific experiments, Peace For All Mankind.” The astronauts deployed the took photographs, and collected rock and soil samples. scientific instruments, took photographs, and collected 22 After the Eagle rendezvoused with the Command Service kilograms of lunar rock and soil samples. The astronauts Module (CSM) Columbia, the astronauts returned to Earth, traversed a total distance of about 250 meters. The EVA landing in the Pacific Ocean on July 24. Apollo 11 fulfilled ended after 2 hours, 31 minutes when the astronauts President John F. Kennedy’s challenge for America to land returned to the LM and closed the hatch. a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth before After spending over 21 hours on the lunar surface, the the 1960’s decade had ended. Eagle blasted off. Once the LM had docked with Columbia, Apollo 11 was launched on a Saturn V on July 16, 1969 the two astronauts transferred to the CM, and the LM was from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After 1 ½ Earth jettisoned into lunar orbit (the crash site of the Eagle on orbits, the S-IVB stage was re-ignited, putting the the Moon is still unknown). spacecraft on course for the Moon. The S-IVB was fired Three days later, just before Columbia was positioned for again once the CSM reached the Moon to insert the reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, it was separated from spacecraft into orbit around it. On July 20, Neil Armstrong the Service Module. Apollo 11 splashed down in the and Buzz Aldrin entered the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle and Pacific Ocean on July 24 at 5:50 AM local time, after descended to the lunar surface. The LM landed in the Sea traveling over 950,000 miles in a little more than 8 days. of Tranquility with Armstrong reporting, “Houston, The splashdown point was 920 miles southwest of Tranquility Base here – the Eagle has landed.” Armstrong Honolulu and 13 miles from USS Hornet. stepped onto the lunar surface several hours later stating, Four months later, USS Hornet (CVS-12) repeated this “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for flawless performance as PRS for the recovery of Apollo 12, mankind.” America’s second lunar landing mission. On November 24, 1969, the spacecraft Yankee Clipper, with its all-Navy astronaut crew of Pete Conrad, Alan Bean and Dick Gordon, splashed down a little over 2 miles from the aircraft carrier. It’s difficult to discuss the Navy mission in space without recognizing Star Trek for predicting that the Navy would play a major role in the final frontier. With due respect to Mr. Roddenberry, the Navy does not go it alone; rather, we are a part of the Defense Department’s space operations team. I think there may be some people who would be surprised to learn that the Navy has a mission in space – they might also be surprised to know that the U.S. Naval Academy has produced more astronauts than any other undergraduate institution. Chronology of Space Missions Involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1961-1981 5 May 1961. Launch of Freedom 7 (Mercury 3). 20 February 1962. Launch of Friendship 7 (Mercury 6). 24 May 1962. Launch of Aurora 7 (Mercury 7). 3 October 1962. Launch of Sigma 7 (Mercury 8). 23 March 1965. Launch of Gemini 3. 21 August 1965. Launch of Gemini 5. 15 December 1965 Launch of Gemini 6. 4 December 1965. Launch of Gemini 7. 16 March 1966. Launch of Gemini 8. “The utilization of space truly has been a national effort; 3 June 1966. Launch of Gemini 9. the talents of the military services have been invaluable 18 July 1966. Launch of Gemini 10. through these years. The United States Navy has played a 12 September 1966. Launch of Gemini 11. particularly important part in the development and final 11 November 1966. Launch of Gemini 12. realization of that enterprise.” 27 January 1967. Fire in Command Module at Cape Captain Alan B. Shepard Jr., USN Kennedy during simulation countdown. Lunar Module NASA Astronaut Pilot LCDR Roger B. Chaffee and two other crewmembers died. Even before NASA was established in 1958, the U.S. Navy 11 October 1968. Launch of Apollo 7. had been involved in atmospheric and high-altitude 21 December 1968. Launch of Apollo 8. research through the Naval Research Laboratory and 18 May 1969. Launch of Apollo 10. Office of Naval Research. U.S. Navy contributions to space 20 July 1969. Apollo 11 completes mission to moon. exploration continued with NASA’s manned space flight 19 November 1969. Launch of Apollo 12. programs, starting in the early 1960s. Navy personnel 11 April 1970. Launch of Apollo 13. served as astronauts in space missions, and Navy ships 5 February 1971. Launch of Apollo 14. supported recovery of astronauts at sea until the 21 April 1972. Launch of Apollo 16. development of the space shuttle. The first American in 12 December 1972. Launch of Apollo 17. space, Alan Shepard, was a Navy officer. A Marine 25 May 1973. Launch of Skylab 2. helicopter, HUS1 helicopter of HMR(L)-262, and the 28 July 1973. Launch of Skylab 3. antisubmarine warfare support aircraft carrier USS Lake 16 November 1973. Launch of Skylab 4. Champlain (CVS-39) were involved in recovery of Shepard 17 July 1975. Docking in space of the U.S. Apollo and and his space capsule in 1961. Neil Armstrong, the first Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. man to set foot on the moon, was a naval aviator who 1 October 1979. President Jimmy Carter awarded the served in the Korean War. From pilots to Underwater Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the following Demolition Team (UDT) Frogmen to researchers and astronauts: former naval aviator Neil Armstrong, Captain engineers, Navy personnel have been involved in many Charles Conrad, Jr., USN (Ret.), Colonel John Glenn, USMC facets of the space program. (Ret.), and Rear Admiral Alan Shepard Jr., USN (Ret.). 12 April 1981. List of Astronauts Educated at the United States Naval Academy Over 50 United States astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy (USNA), more than from any other undergraduate institution. The Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Academy is often referred to as Annapolis. Sports media refer to the Academy as "Navy" and the students as "Midshipmen"; this usage is officially endorsed. During the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, the United States Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps officers, with the Class of 1881 being the first to provide officers to the Marine Corps. Graduates of the Academy are also given the option of entering the United States Army or United States Air Force; known as cross-commissioning.
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