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I think you misunderstood the announcer - the recovery takes 2 hours, but that's not how long it takes the boats to get to the capsule at its splashdown locatio
by fit2rule 7y ago
I think you misunderstood the announcer - the recovery takes 2 hours, but that's not how long it takes the boats to get to the capsule at its splashdown location.
The boats get there pretty quickly.
The time required is for safety checks and so on - there's some pretty nasty materials involved in those thruster engines, and all that stuff has to be checked first.
- whoisthemachine 7y agoInteresting, so given this do you think that a normal landing would not have as long of a recovery time, given that it won't use those thruster engines?
- greglindahl 7y agoFor a normal landing, there’s an extra step of hoisting the entire capsule onto the ship before opening the hatch.
- skunkworker 7y agoIn addition to this. The Air Force has personnel that can jump out of the plane with flotation, medical equipment and food in order to survive for an extended period of time on the ocean while it may take a few hours to get fast boats and recovery teams there.