24 July 1969: The Command Module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific Ocean & was recovered by crewmen from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet; Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins were placed in a Mobile Quarantine facility aboard the Hornet in which they met with incumbent U.S. president Richard Nixon; the astronauts & the Columbia remained quarantined for three weeks.
The Rebel Black Dot Moonshot Songs o' the Day: Apollo 11
Phillip Phillips, "Home" from The World from This Side of the Moon (The Last Angry Man)
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National Aeronautics & Space Administration, "Apollo 11 Excerpt 30" from The Apollo Missions (The Last Angry Man)
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