President Richard Nixon with Apollo 11 astronauts

Jul. 29, 1969 - Apollo 11 Splashdown: The Apollo 11 astronauts, (L to R ) Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, listen to greeting by president Richard M. Nixon from inside their mobile Quarantine facility aboard the USS mormet. The president used a microphone to speak to the lunar explorers after their recovery from the pacific ocean, 900 miles south west of Hawaii. Their quarantine trailer was off-loaded in Hawaii and flown aboard an aircraft to the manned spacecraft center in Houston, Texas. There, the astronauts were spending the remainder of their 21-day quarantine period in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where doctors and scientists test the flight crew and lunar samples for possible harmful organisms brought back from the lunar surface

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