recovery ship

The company began work with its large recovery ship on Dec. 12.

She served as the recovery ship for the Apollo 4 space mission.

Do you still want the recovery ship team on standby?"

The successful use of the carriers as recovery ships continued into the Apollo program.

And if it went critical before then, Mercer knew there would be no point in launching the recovery ship at all.

Do you know when the recovery ship is due?"

One of her last missions was to serve as the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 10 space mission.

My first step is to request a recovery ship and transport to a repair depot.

The recovery ship took off three hours ago; it is on course and estimating the pick-up point in a little over a week.

Tracking showed it was about 60 miles (96 km) from the nearest recovery ship.

The recovery ship countdown is now at minus ninety-six hours and three minutes.

She was also the recovery ship for the spacecraft that traveled to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission.

The splashdown happened closer to the recovery ship than any other manned spacecraft.

Well, keep a sharp lookout for the recovery ship, but don't look at or near the Sun without goggles.

In December 1968, she served as one of the recovery ships for the Apollo 8 space deployment.

We could wait for a day or so until it had cleared the area, and there would be no need to delay launching the recovery ship.

From time to time they rubbed it with sweating hands to search the blurred stars for the recovery ship.

The topside recovery ship is also called "Explorer".

Angrily, because he was suddenly so frightened, Mercer said, "What about the recovery ship?

On 7 August 1971, Okinawa was the recovery ship for Apollo 15.

At that point the team loaded the company's 250-foot recovery ship, the Odyssey Explorer, with advanced gear.

Her notable achievements include being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission.

Lake Champlain was selected as the prime recovery ship for America's first manned space flight.

Other possible material includes news photographs and clippings of the space events and covers canceled on recovery ships.

He was being blown steadily away from theFafnisbane and from the recovery ships.