At the predawn hour of approximately 4 a.m., Apollo 8 plunged into the frigid waters of the Northern Pacific Ocean 900 miles southwest of Hawaii on Dec. 27, 1968. Awaiting ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – The USS Yorktown aided in recovery efforts for the first crewed spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon when it returned to Earth on December 27, 1968. Apollo 8 ...

The USS Yorktown was part of an Apollo recovery mission. The ship and its crew recovered the Apollo 8 capsule on Dec. 27, 1968. (Video: Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum) ...

The next summer, Apollo 11 made the first moon landing. The Apollo 8 capsule was recovered by the USS Yorktown, and the new exhibit is part of a five-million-dollar effort to make exhibits on the ...

Apollo 8 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968, and the astronauts were recovered by the USS Yorktown. Lauded as heroes, the crewmembers were named Time Magazine’s “Men of the ...

Visitors can enter a replica of the Apollo 8 capsule and experience what it’s like to fly to the moon. The attraction displays film footage and radio communications from the December 1968 mission.

Meet crew members of the USS Yorktown who were aboard the aircraft carrier in December 1968 and helped recover the Apollo 8 space capsule and crew after it orbited the moon and returned to Earth ...

The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean where they were recovered by the USS Yorktown, the renowned aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 to replace the carrier of the same name that was ...

This special holiday version of the Captain’s Tour is a guided 1 hour, 15 minute tour aboard USS Yorktown. Among stories told during the tour are the details of how the Apollo […] ...

Visitors feel their seats rumble on takeoff and shake upon splashdown. In Apollo 8, astronauts orbited the moon for the first time. The next summer Apollo 11 made the first moon landing.