Ben Holcomb
EF5
Since earlier today marked 50 years since the Apollo 11 splashdown, this article caught my attention. Pretty incredible stuff that one person was able to convince NASA to change splashdown site.
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Did military forecasters avert disaster for Apollo 11 mission?
The Apollo 11 mission ended July 24, 1969 at 12:50 pm EDT (6:50 am Hawaii time) with the successful splashdown of the Command Module (CM) Columbia in the Pacific Ocean, 965 miles west southwest of Hawaii. Results might have been very different if not for two military meteorologists who risked...
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