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The seas were warm and moderate and the sun was just coming up over the ocean.
The spacecraft turned upside down and the astronauts immediately began the slow process righting it. The same thing has happened twice before.
The astronauts flipped a switch, inflating three brown-and-yellow balloons to pop their spacecraft upright. This was a process that normally takes eight to 10 minutes.
Five minutes after splashdown, a helicopter reported to the ship that "two flotation bags (the balloons) are visible at this time."
"It is coming upright," another circling airplane said. "The bags are inflating."
President Nixon, standing on
the Hornet bridge with a big grin on his face and his left hand resting atop his right on a rail, watched and chatted with ship's officers.
Once he waved in the direction of someone on the deck below.
Bedlam broke out in many American cities large and small. Car horns, city and ship sirens screamed and firecrackers crackled in San Francisco, where Mayor Joseph Alioto had asked every noise-making device in the city to be turned on for five minutes. Church bells rang in New England.
The astronauts were taken by helicopter to an aluminum trailer on the deck of the Hornet, to be sealed away from the world for
18 days to make sure they did not bring back any deadly germs from the moon.
The astronauts stepped on the Hornet's deck at 2:12 p.m. EDT.
They waved as they walked steadily, clad in their isolation suits, into the rear door of the trailer that will be kept sealed for a two-day trip to Honolulu on the Hornet and then by air to the U.S. Space Center near Houston, Tex.
A moment later one astronauts' face appeared at a window and a great cheer broke out on the hanger deck.
In the suburb of Nassau Bay, Tex., near the Space Center, Mrs. Pat Collins watched on television as sailors on the Hornet cheered, and said she was "especially thankful."
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SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The nation can hardly wait to give Appollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., a hero's welcome back to earth.
President Nixon arranged for the astronauts to visit New York, Chicago and Los Angeles on the same day, Aug. 13, after they get out of lunar quarantine. Tickertape parades are planned down
New York's Broadway and through Chicago's Loop, and Nix-on will host a dinner that night in their honor in Los Angeles.
In addition, San Francisco promises them its biggest parade ever, and Wapakoneta, Ohio—Armstrong's hometown—expects "maybe even hundreds of thousands" for its blowout.
These plans were quickly taking shape and the astronauts still had more than a day in space. The space agency expects an avalanche of demands on the astronauts' time now that they are safely home.
Russia praises US feat
MOSCOW (UPI)—A top Soviet space expert hailed America's Apollo 11 moon mission as one of the most "outstanding and significant" events in the 20th Century and indicated the Soviet Union was working on a new manned space flight.
In an article written for Pravda and transmitted by the Soviet news agency Tass, academician Leonid Sedov said, "The Soviet people together with the people of the USA and other countries congratulate the crew of Apollo 11 on this outstanding and significant flight.
"Man's walk on the moon win go down into the chronicles of the Twentieth Century as a marvelous event."
He said due to the high level of technical development achieved by man, "prospects for interplanetary travel are already outlining."
Sedov said the Soviet Union is currently conducting a very extensive space research program.
"Soviet space explorations will be continued in various directions including manned space flights," he said, but in keeping with customary Russian silence on planned launchings, did not give any indication when the next manned shot would take place.
Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean were scheduled to blast off in September for a moon landing if Apollo 11 was unsuccessful.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—Lt. Gen. Sam C. Phillips, Apollo program director, said today the Apollo 12 astronauts will have their moon landing postponed for at least two months.
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Before anybody has a chance at them, however, the three spacemen must go through an 18-day quarantine on earth to make sure they didn't bring any unearthly germs with them from the moon.
The secret to the anticontamination system is the pressure inside the MQF. It maintains air pressure at a lower level than outside, thus keeping germs out because air flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
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As an added safeguard, air removed from the trailer is filtered to 99.99 per cent purity.
The astronauts will walk into the trailer's side door where six airplane passenger seats rest on a carpeted floor.
Few persons in the space program believe any harmful substances will be brought back from the moon. But just in case they are, NASA has ordered four MQF's at $50,000 each and an $11 million moon isolation building in Houston.
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Doctors plan to release them Aug. 11. They will have just one day with their families before they head for New York by Presidential jetliner for the first of three celebrations Aug. 13.
Decontamination Lock The trailer's kitchen is located next to the lounge. It has the usual apparatus found in any trailer kitchen with one additional feature-a decontamination transfer lock.
Since the astronauts will carry their lunar samples into the MQF when they arrive on the carrier, every one of the samples taken from the lunar surface must pass through the hatch.
Costly Precaution
When the hatch is closed the chamber is filled with liquid antiseptic for 20 minutes before the material can be removed from the outside.
The same process works in reverse to get material into the MQF.
Other rooms in the facility are a bedroom with six twin-sized beds and a small bathroom with a tiny shower. Waste water from the sinks, bath and transfer lock empties into tanks where it can be stored after mixing with a strong germ killer. The tanks will be emptied only when scientists are sure it is safe to do so.
Film and rock sample containers will be sealed in a plastic sack and dropped in the lock.
Inspection Invited
There will be two trailers aboard the recovery carrier. In the event one of the astronauts becomes ill, he can be transferred to the second facility.
It is called the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) and astronauts Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil A. Armstrong will take it on only one trip—a one-way journey from the carrier Hornet to Houston where they will enter a special building built to house them for the 18 days scientists believe it will take to determine if they have brought back any alien diseases.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—It looks like an ordinary house trailer, but that shiny 35-foot long aluminum vehicle houses a large amount of exotic equipment which has been designed for one 66-hour trip.
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