Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 14

A-14 Honolulu Star-Bulletin July 23, 1969 Hornet's crew ready for Apollo By Richard D. Hoyt Star-Bulletin Writer The final crisis in the Apollo 11 space epic will be i in the hands of the sailors of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet tomorrow morning. The Hornet sailors know they will have to be sharp for the historic splashdown, set for an area of the Pacific about 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. Not only will the eyes of the world focus on the Apollo recovery, but the Hornet crewm en will also be watched by their commander-in-chief," President Rich- NAVY SE SPANSATEL TERM, ELECT "LUCKY" NO. 66 Helicopter No.

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1960 South King Street near McCully Phone: 946-6544 ard M. Nixon. Nixon will arrive on the Hornet by helicopter just minutes before the scheduled splashdown at 6:51 a.m. Hawaii time. THE PRESIDENT will have breakfast with the Hornet's commander, Capt.

Carl J. Seiberling, and later watch the recovery from the ship's bridge. Seiberling, knowing that all eyes will be on the Hornet, has really put his crew through their paces. The Hornet's crew ran daily recovery drills from the time it left the Mainland on June 30 until its first complete dry run 60 miles southwest of Hawaii on July 9. That drill went okay, said Seiberling.

But it wasn't good enough. He ordered more practice. When the Hornet sailed from Honolulu for its prime recovery position near Johnston Island on July 12, the final assignments for the helicopter pilots and scuba divers had not been made. THE MEN then had to compete for a role in Apollo 11 history before NASA representatives on board plus 65 television technicians, six newspaper reporters and eight newspaper photographers. The newspaper copy and photographs plus the television pictures will go to a world press pool at the Space Center in Houston.

Two huge ABC television vans are stored on the hangar in the Hornet's interior along with the decontamination vans where the astronauts will be isolated for two weeks. The Navy's lucky "Sea King" helicopter, No. 66, plucked both Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 astronauts from the water at splashdown. BARRING mechanical trouble. No.

66 will get the call again, aided by other 65-foot "Sea King" helicopters which will swoop to within inches of the Pacific to dump divers. flotation gear and rafts to the waiting spacecraft. Each siep of anchoring the capsule and recovering the astronauts will be done very carefully and precisely according to plan. is no great hurry to get the astronauts out of the water if they are in good shape," said one Navy spokesman. If all goes as planned the astronauts should be on the Hornet about 90 minutes after splashdown.

NAVY LT. Clancy Hatleberg will be the first human contact for the astronauts tomorrow. After the spacecraft is secured, Hatleberg, wearing a special suit to protect him from possbile lunar contamination, will leap into the water from a helicopter. He will then open the capsule's hatch and pop a bag of BIGs (biological insulation garments) to the astronauts inside. They will wear the Hui Makaala benefit film The Hui Makaala, a club made up of Americans of Okinawan descent, is sponsoring a benefit movie to raise scholarship funds.

The movie, No To," will be shown at Toho Theater on Kapiolani Boulevard from today through Tuesday. The club has awarded 50 high school graduates scholarships to the University of Hawaii thus far. A Miss Hui Makaala queen contest will be held in conjunction with the benefit movie. Girls of Okinawan ancestry between 18 and 26 are eligible to compete. Ben Oshiro is queen contest chairman.

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Wife-1944, blonde. 5 36-24-36, $60,000 dollars or nearest Said Shaw: "For the sake of peace in the home, one of them has got to go." BIGs until they are inside the decontamination van on the Hornet. Divers who were first on the scene will swim 200 feet upwind of the capsule when this is happening to avoid possible contamination themselves. ALL OF THIS will be recorded by television cameras in other helicopters hovering nearby. Two twin-engined "Willy Fudd" airplanes, capable of landing on the carrier deck, will be directing the operations from 6,000 feet and 8,000 feet above.

The lower plane will direct recovery operations and the higher plane will relay communications to the Hornet and the world. Descriptions of the recovery from the Hornet will be relayed to Hawaii before it goes to the Mainland. IN HAWAII, Navy Lt. Dale Davenport will play a key role in this communications network. Davenport will choose, from three simultaneous conversations between six people, coming into his left ear, just which information from the recovery scene is newsworthy.

His decisions will be relayed to Houston for news media from all over the world. Not long after Davenport's descriptions of the recovery are broadcast to the world. the first pictures of the event will be relayed to the Mainland from Hawaii via satellite. HOW THE pictures get to Hawaii from the Hornet is a story in itself. The film will be stored in a special canister on the Hornet's deck, tethered to a cable which will be held aloft by a balloon.

An Air Force C-130 "Hercules" airplane, flying at 120 miles an hour, will snatch the cable with a special device on its nose. The plane will reel in the canister as it wings it way to Hawaii. The balloon will drift away. Those pictures should be on their way to Hickam Air Force Base sometime between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

WHEN THE astronauts are safely inside the deconvan on the Hortamination, President Nixon will see them through a window and talk to them by telephone. The President will then leave the Hornet as he came, by helicopter and communications ship, back to Johnston Island. From there he will go to Guam and an Asian tour. The astronauts in the decontamination van will take a short ride to Pearl Harbor aboard the aircraft carrier and then to Houston by daily right here APOLLO FILM PICKUP. Photographs of the Apollo 11 Pacific recovery will be on their way to Hawaii within minutes after splashdown.

This sequence of photos by Star-Bulletin photographer John Titchen shows how it will be done. The plane is an Air Force HC-130 "Rescue Hercules" from the 76th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base. It will literally snatch, by cable, a cannister of films from the deck of the recovery ship USS Hornet. Once the aircraft grabs the cable, held aloft by a balloon, it will simply reel the payload in. The cable above the airplane Leis are incredible, they're So ono.

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