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Apollo Landing
Retired NASA engineer Coye Mac Jones of Broomfield, Colorado writes, "This is a photograph of the Apollo 8 Command Module (CM-103) on December 29, 1968, after it was offloaded from the prime recovery ship, the U.S.S. Yorktown, on December 29, 1968, at Ford Island, Hawaii. The Command Module was being towed to a Ford Island hangar for landing safing (pyro deactivation and propellant offloading) prior to its return to the U.S. mainland. The civilian sitting on the tug is J. Milt Heflin, a NASA Recovery Engineer aboard the prime recovery ship. I was a NASA Recovery Engineer on the Landing Safing Team and had the additional honor of flying with the Command Module on an USAF C-133B from Hawaii to Long Beach, California on January 1, 1969. The Command Module was trucked on January 2, 1969, from the Long Beach Airport to the North American Aviation plant in Downey, California where the Command Module was originally manufactured and was to be further evaluated for mission performance."
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