• Several vessels have been named Recovery: HMS Hyaena (1778) was a 24-gun post ship launched in 1778. The French frigate Concorde captured her in 1793 and...
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  • will have several changes to gain flight data for future ship recovery and reuse. The ship will reenter the atmosphere at a steeper angle to test the...
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    The NASA recovery ships are two ships, the MV Liberty Star and the MV Freedom Star, that were tasked with retrieving spent Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)...
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    2022. As of April 2024, SN20 (Ship 20) remains in the Rocket Garden. Ship 21 was scrapped before being completed. Ship 22 moved to the Rocket Garden in...
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    Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Ship 30 upper-stage and Super Heavy Booster 12. This launch is notable for being...
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  • Mr. Steven, and its sister ship, Ms. Chief—were chartered by SpaceX and used 2018–2021 as experimental platforms for recovery of rocket fairings from Falcon...
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    (NASA) Apollo 13 hoisted onto ship (NASA) Gemini water egress training Recovery of the Dragon C2+ on May 31, 2012 Recovery of the EFT-1 Orion, December...
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    SpaceX's two Dragon capsule recovery vessels. Owned by SpaceX through Falcon Landing LLC (which also owns SpaceX's faring recovery vessels and Elon Musk's...
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    Dragon recovery ship "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Go Navigator". VesselTracker. 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2020. "SHANNON, Offshore Tug/Supply Ship - Details...
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    Heavy first stage (booster) and the ambiguously-named Starship second stage (ship). There are currently three planned versions of Starship: Block 1 (also known...
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  • Look up recovery or recover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Recovery or Recover may refer to: Recovery (novel), a Star Wars e-book Recovery Version...
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    he named Faith 7, to a splashdown just 4 miles (6.4 km) ahead of the recovery ship. Cooper became the first astronaut to make a second orbital flight when...
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    and landing of a used orbital rocket, the first controlled flyback and recovery of a payload fairing, and the first re-flight of a commercial cargo spacecraft...
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    Essex-class aircraft carrier (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    spaceflight program, as recovery ships for uncrewed and crewed spaceflights, between 1960 and 1973. USS Valley Forge was the recovery ship for the uncrewed flight...
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    out before the flight termination system (FTS) destroyed the booster and ship. On the second integrated flight test all 33 booster engines remained lit...
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    cost of about $800 million, or $4.9 billion today. The US designed the recovery ship and its lifting cradle using concepts developed with Global Marine (see...
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    a recovery ship had failed, despite fitting Mr. Steven with larger nets before the July 2018 attempt. In October 2018, at least two fairing recovery tests...
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    USS Kearsarge (CV-33) (category Space capsule recovery ships)
    modified to become an anti-submarine carrier (CVS). Kearsarge was the recovery ship for the last two manned Project Mercury space missions in 1962–1963...
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    where a SpaceX recovery ship Go Navigator brought the crew and spacecraft back to shore. This mission was the first ocean-based recovery of an American...
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    USS Princeton (CV-37) (category Space capsule recovery ships)
    amphibious assault ship (LPH), carrying helicopters and marines. One of her last missions was to serve as the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 10 space...
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  • Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Ship 29 upper-stage and Super Heavy Booster 11. SpaceX performed the flight test...
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    Schirra manually blew Sigma 7's hatch after recovery when his spacecraft was on the deck of the recovery ship, in a deliberate attempt to dispel the rumor...
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    USS Lake Champlain (CV-39) (category Space capsule recovery ships)
    redesignated as an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). Lake Champlain was the prime recovery ship for the first crewed Project Mercury mission (Freedom 7), the second...
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    recovery ship Reusable launch system Vertical Take-off, Vertical Landing Sea Launch Controlled descent; ocean touchdown control failed; no recovery Passive...
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    The capsule taken aboard the recovery ship MV Megan. After the crew exited the spacecraft, they were taken into the ship's onboard medical treatment facility...
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    USS Yorktown (CV-10) (category Space capsule recovery ships)
    battle stars. The carrier served as a recovery ship for the December, 1968, Apollo 8 space mission, the first crewed ship to reach and orbit the Moon, and...
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    USS Wasp (CV-18) (category Space capsule recovery ships)
    played a prominent role in the manned space program, serving as the recovery ship for five Project Gemini missions: Gemini IV, Gemini VI, Gemini VII,...
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    resupply the station. Pettit was also the first to enter the uncrewed supply ship on May 26, making him the first astronaut in the history of space exploration...
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    two ships for towing and supporting autonomous spaceport drone ship and fairing recovery operations on the east coast in May 2021. These two ships were...
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    USS Essex (CV-9) (category Space capsule recovery ships)
    carrier and the lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name...
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