24 November 1969: The Command Module Yankee Clipper splashed down in the Pacific Ocean & was recovered by crewmen from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet; Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, & Alan Bean were placed in a Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard the Hornet (remaining quarantined for three weeks) & promoted to captain (O-6) by incumbent U.S. president Richard Nixon via telephone.
Bonus! Moonshot Songs o' the Day
Leonard Rosenman, "Home Again (End Credits)" from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Trekkie Mike Papa Whiskey)
&
National Aeronautics & Space Administration, "Apollo 12 Excerpt 28" from The Apollo Missions (Mike Papa Whiskey)
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