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VICfiMaYOKOSUKA, .Japan (CNF.J)— aji U.S. sliips and pianos headed out J,n to points in the Pacific Sunday' Uil .to support the recovery of the tf.v Gcmini-9 capsule and astronauts. In! inThe three-day space flight- is ’ tIi sched u Ied to be 1 aunehed fvom **■■ Cape. Canaveral Fla., shortly after noon Tuesday (1 39 a.m. Wednesday JST).The .splashdown is scheduled for tin* At jam it; where eight ships are waiting.The Pacific hack up operation includes four Navy ships, two ('oast Guard aircraft and 14 Air Force rescue aircraft. They will take stations at points from San Diego, Cal., to Perth, Australia.: to comprise Task Force 130, the Defense Department Pacific recovery force for manned .spacecraft missions.The destroyers George K. Mac-Keuxie. commanded by Cur. William I*'. Casper Jr.. and Hupcr-tus. commanded by Cdr. Fdwin J. Burks, left Yokosuka Sunday to; take up stations, alternating as; necessary, in the western Pr.dficr recovery zone al)Out HSO miles = south of Yokosuka. 1From Pearl Harbor for the mid- • Pacific recovery zone about 300 . mi I os ruyr the a st o.f Haw aii w i 1.1 b i* - tli e d e s tr o ye r Ep p erso n., com-manded by Cdr. Paul K. Clauson.Tlu* 14 U.S. Air Force rescue aircraft will In* at Hickam AFB, Hawaii; Ukinawa; Pago Pago Airport, American Samoa; Farce Ko\al Australian Air Force Station. Australia, and Knyal Air Force Base. Changi. SingaporeKadi aircraft will carry, besides its normal crew, three para-reset) cm on and one photographer. Two (’oast Guard IKM31IP Hercules aircraft, assigned to the task force, will be stationed on the West (.'oast; one at San Diego and one at San Fraueiseo. VT-9 is .scheduled for an Allan tic recovery.However, force's will be standing by to recover the spacecraft.1 and astronauts Thomas Stafford and Kugene Genian if a Pacific landing is requiicd.
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Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP

Tue, May 17, 1966

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