Image: USS Intrepid (CV-11) - Mar 65 a
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Description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) pulls up alongside the Gemini 3 spacecraft during recovery operations following the successful Gemini-Titan 3 flight. Navy swimmers stand on the spacecraft's flotation collar waiting to hook a hoist line to the Gemini 3, on 23 March 1965. Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young made history's first controlled re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
Title: USS Intrepid (CV-11) - Mar 65 a
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/gemini/gemini3/html/s65-18528.html (direct link)
Author: NASA
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