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Within the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Apollo xi astronauts (left to right) Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. as well as Neil A. Armstrong relax next their successful lunar landing mission.
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The Apollo xi mission, the get-go manned lunar mission, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong as well as Edwin Aldrin, landed on the Moon. During 2½ hours of surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lunar surface fabric for analysis dorsum on Earth.
The recovery functioning took house inward the Pacific Ocean where Navy para-rescue men recovered the capsule housing the 3-man Apollo xi crew.
The crew was airlifted to security aboard the U.S.S. Hornet recovery ship, where they were quartered inward a Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) which served equally their domicile for 21 days.
The Hornet docked at Pearl Harbor where the trailer was transferred to a jet aircraft for the flying to Houston. The MQF is beingness lowered from the U.S.S. Hornet, onto a trailer for carry to Hickam Field.
From there, it was loaded aboard an Air Force C-141 jet as well as flown dorsum to Ellington Air Force Base Texas, as well as and then on to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Lunar Receiving Laboratory inward Houston, Texas.
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