Retrieval Activity of MR-4 MSFC-6116429

Autor:

NASA

Credit:

Marshall Space Flight Center's Marshall Image Exchange: description, image file

Krótki link:

https://plwiki.pl/b/5a71e

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Wikimedia Commons

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Opis:

U.S. Marine helicopter pulls astronaut Virgil Grissom from the sea after splashdown at the completion of the MR-4 mission. The spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7, was lost in the sea. The MR-4 mission was the second manned suborbital flight. The helicopter on the left is a Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse of Marine medium transport squadron HMR(L)-262 Det. Flying Tigers, on the right is a US Navy Sikorsky HSS-1N Seabat of helicopter anti-submarine squadron HS-7 Big Dippers, both assigned to Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 58 (CVSG-58) aboard the recovery ship USS Randolph (CVS-15).

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