posted 10-10-2024 03:48 AM
If you mean the large honeycomb panel: Yes to me they look like the fairing of the ullage motors/rockets. What the smaller pieces (look like crushed shuttle tiles) are and the smaller triangulare structure: no clue.
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posted 10-10-2024 10:56 AM
LPD-4 was the USS Austin. Unfortunately her ship's logs have not been digitized yet, so we won't be getting any descriptions of items recovered from that source. Her history confirms that she was, however, detailed to the Apollo 4 recovery zone, in early November 1967.
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Posts: 4000 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 10-10-2024 04:32 PM
The Apollo 4 Mission Report has these additional details:
In addition to covering a launch abort, the U.S.S. Austin and associated forces were responsible for recovery of the two camera capsules ejected from the S-II stage and for any portion of the S-IC stage that might have been floating after impact ...
Both camera capsules were recovered ...
Three pieces, identified as S-IC/S-II interstage ullage rocket motor fairings, were recovered at 1500 G.m.t. Two of the pieces were whole fairings and the other piece was only a part of a fairing.
The only material recovered from the S-IC stage were several small pieces identified as fuel tank insulation material.
The Apollo 6 Mission Report has this information:
In addition to providing command module recovery support in the western portion of the continuous abort area, U.S.S. Austin was responsible for recovering the four S-IC camera capsules and the two S-II camera capsules that were to be ejected from the launch vehicle...
Only one of the four S-IC camera capsules was recovered ...
S-II camera capsule 2 was recovered ... Indications are that S-II camera capsule 1 ejected normally but sank shortly after impact ...
There was some launch vehicle debris sighted in the area, but it sank shortly after impact and none was recovered.
posted 10-09-2024 04:35 PM
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