The NASA recovery ships are two ships, the MV Liberty Star and the MV Freedom Star, that were tasked with retrieving spent Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)...

Museum (Intrepid also served as the recovery ship for Project Mercury and Project Gemini). In August 2011 the NASA Inspector General released an audit...

Bigelow saw extensive service in the Vietnam War and also served as a NASA recovery ship for the Mercury and Gemini III programs.[citation needed] While operating...

crew, and prepare it to be lifted aboard the recovery vessel, where the astronauts can exit the capsule. NASA requires SpaceX to allow the astronauts to...

launches Blue Origin landing platform vessel Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief NASA recovery ship Reusable launch system Vertical Take-off, Vertical Landing Sea Launch...

crew, and prepare it to be lifted aboard the recovery vessel, where the astronauts can exit the capsule. NASA requires SpaceX to allow the astronauts to...

among its few remaining vessels was MV Freedom Star, previously a NASA recovery ship for the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters, which was then loaned...

usually by parachute. This has been the primary recovery method of American capsules including NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the...

seaplane tenders, part of Operation Flat Top. MV Freedom Star, a NASA recovery ship. USS Kittiwake (ASR-13) and USS Ortolan (ASR-22), submarine rescue...

Freedom Star is a formerly NASA-owned and United Space Alliance-operated vessel which primarily served as an SRB recovery ship following the launch of Space...

Alive is an American IMAX documentary film, released on June 1, 1985, about NASA's Space Shuttle program. The film was narrated by Walter Cronkite, and directed...

and plan to colonize Mars, and also one of two landing systems selected by NASA for the Artemis program's crewed Lunar missions. SpaceX calls the entire...

Hurley Retires from NASA". NASA. Retrieved July 16, 2021. "Scoop: SpaceX purchases and outfits two ships, potentially for fairing recovery". Space Explored...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA /ˈnæsə/) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's...

Thompson, Amy (3 May 2019). "SpaceX Delays Dragon Cargo Ship Launch for NASA Due to Drone Ship Glitch". space.com. Retrieved 4 May 2019. Clark, Stephen...

(LPD-23) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock and the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the U.S. city of Anchorage, Alaska...

recovered. Specially fitted NASA recovery ships, the MV Freedom Star and the MV Liberty Star, recover the SRBs and descent/recovery hardware. Once the boosters...

program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo...

ascent. Immediately after the disaster, the NASA Launch Recovery Director launched the two SRB recovery ships, MV Freedom Star and MV Liberty Star, to proceed...

[@JimBridenstine] (13 November 2020). "Update: Due to onshore winds and recovery operations, @NASA and @SpaceX are targeting launch of the Crew-1 mission with astronauts...

off St. Maarten on 15 December 1998. MV Liberty Star, one of two NASA recovery ships built by Atlantic Marine. The two vessels were charged with recovering...

mission. The planning and training processes for a rescue flight would allow NASA to launch the mission within a period of 40 days of its being called up....

Liberty Star is a formerly NASA-owned and United Space Alliance-operated vessel which primarily served as an SRB recovery ship following the launch of Space...

Lynx rocketplane and SpaceShipTwo have been proffered to NASA to carry suborbital research payloads in response to NASA's suborbital reusable launch...

(NASA) in the oceanic recovery of returning astronauts. During the Apollo 8, Apollo 10, and Apollo 11 missions, Helicopter 66 was the primary recovery...

spaceflight program, as recovery ships for uncrewed and crewed spaceflights, between 1960 and 1973. USS Valley Forge was the recovery ship for the uncrewed flight...

generally on a ship or an aircraft. A cabin which protrudes above the level of a ship's deck may be referred to as a deckhouse. In sailing ships, the officers...

capsule for the recovery team. The evaluation process supported NASA's design of landing recovery operations including equipment, ship and crew needs....

in 1964. Hirasaki was hired by the Landing and Recovery Division of the Manned Spacecraft Center of NASA in 1966. The Apollo 11 mission represented the...

Reusable parts may also need specialized recovery facilities such as runways or autonomous spaceport drone ships. Some concepts rely on ground infrastructures...