11. Specially fitted NASA recovery ships , the and the, recover the SRBs and descent / recovery hardware. 12. Dozens of other victims were buried at sea after embalming fluid ran out aboard the recovery ships . 13. An oil recovery ship , " Clean Islands " was behind the ship to clean up oil spills. 14. The splashdown point was, SSW of Bermuda and north of the recovery ship USS " Essex ". 15. Ships, helicopters and airplanes in the area were barred from coming within five miles of the recovery ship . 16. In April and June she was rescue destroyer for, prime recovery ship for the Gemini 9 space mission. 17. One of her last missions was to serve as the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 10 space mission. 18. She acted as recovery ship for an experimental Project Mercury nose-cone which splashed off the Florida coast 25 June. 19. Included are covers and cards cancelled at launch sites, tracking stations, Mission Control facilities, research laboratories, and recovery ships . 20. The CM landed approximately from the target landing site northwest of USS " Bennington ", the prime recovery ship .
