https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6d1f8560-8e7f-4adf-b78c-59f9bb9ac1ea Made prior to the Apollo 11 mission, this film documents some of the media press pool personnel who will be operating behind the scenes to bring the news of the splashdown to the world. The film was produced by Western Union International, which participated in the event by facilitating the delivery of press pool copy to the world through teletype machines on board the ship -- beamed by satellite to Houston. Western Union also oversaw the construction of a color TV "earth station" on aboard USS Hornet, so that live pictures of the recovery could be broadcast to an eager public. The 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 a number of 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. As Captain Carl J. Seiberlich comments at the 1 minute mark, the mission was known as "Hornet Plus 3" -- since the ship would be returning to port with its crew and civilian team plus the three Apollo astronauts. The Navy units embarked on the 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. Four months later, the USS Hornet (CVS-12) repeated this flawless performance as PRS for the recovery of Apollo 12, 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. An excellent summary of this can be found at: http://www.uss-hornet.org/history/apollo/ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2K. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmSwoZIWx7s Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:31:35 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6d1f8560-8e7f-4adf-b78c-59f9bb9ac1ea All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.