News & Events
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USS Yorktown awaits Apollo 8's splashdown! Borman reports moon made of American cheese!
Posted: Dec 27, 2008Nine hundred miles southwest of Hawaii at 9:31 AM (Houston time), the USS Yorktown (CV-10) awaited the splashdown of Apollo 8 just off Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. Unlike previous […]
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Astronaut Jim Lovell says "There is a Santa Claus!"
Posted: Dec 25, 2008The TransEarth Injection, TEI, was planned for just after midnight on Christmas Day. A successful burn would put Apollo 8 on its way back home and Houston control listened carefully […]
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Christmas Eve and orbiting the Moon
Posted: Dec 24, 2008At 2:55 AM (Houston time) Apollo 8 was go for LOI (Lunar Orbit Insertion) burn. After travelling 234,000 miles the crew of Apollo 8 were about to go into a […]
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Apollo 8 enters lunar gravitational field
Posted: Dec 23, 2008Apollo 8 began to speed up as it entered the moon’s gravitational field today. Capcom Jerry Carr asked the astronauts what they could see and Bill AndersĀ responded, “Nothing. It’s […]
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Forty years ago!
Posted: Dec 22, 2008At 7:51 AM on 21 December 1968, a vehicle over 363 feet high leapt into the sky. The beast burnt 20 tons of fuel per second. More in one second […]
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Post Wright Brothers Day
Posted: Dec 18, 2008Yesterday one hundred and five years ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright, showed the world what dreams were made of when they flew four flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today, […]
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1st week of December 1941
Posted: Dec 05, 2008The first week of December 1941 changed our nation forever. On 01 December the keel of USS Yorktown (then USS Bon Homme Richard) was laid at Newport News shipbuilding in […]
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Thanksgiving – A day early and 65 years ago
Posted: Nov 26, 2008Today marks the 65th anniversary of the US Navy’s first successful night intercept on 26 November 1943 by LCDR Butch O’Hare, air group commander of Air Wing 6 on the […]
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Veteran's Day on the YORKTOWN
Posted: Nov 11, 2008Today marks the 90th anniversary of the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. My wife’s grandfather, D. K. McGill was on his way to the front […]
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CV-10 from the Patriots Point Marina
Posted: Nov 09, 2008Patriots Point Originally uploaded by joel8x A great shot looking north from the marina at YORKTOWN and the new Cooper River bridge taken in March 2008.