Rescue Net, Apollo 8
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Billy Pugh Company Inc.
notes: label: Summary
content: All of the Apollo missions ended with splashdown in the ocean and recovery by specially trained teams from the U.S. Navy. Astronauts were lifted into hovering Navy helicopters by means of rescue nets attached to hydrolic hoists.
label: Summary
content: This Air Rescue Net was used December 27, 1968, to recover the Apollo 8 astronauts and it was taken out of service following the rescue. The U.S. Navy transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1969.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transferred by the U.S. Department of the Navy in cooperation with the Billy Pugh Company, Inc. , Corpus Christi, Texas.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19700321000
objectType: label: Type
content: EQUIPMENT-Survival
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Aluminum, Foam, Nylon, Steel, Stainless Steel
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 129.5 × 135.9 × 27.9cm, 61.7kg (4 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 5 1/2 in. × 11 in., 136lb.)