21. Transferred to the 11th Naval District on 1 July 1959, she continued operating as a missile tracking and recovery ship . 22. USS " Valley Forge " was the recovery ship for the unmanned flight of Mercury-Redstone 1A on 19 December 1960. 23. The capsule attained a velocity of and an altitude of, and landed within of the main Pacific Ocean recovery ship . 24. This was Launch Test Vehicle ( LTV ) recovery equipment which transformed her into the first dummy Polaris missile recovery ship . 25. From the moment the mission starts until the moment the crew is safe on board a recovery ship , I'm in charge," 26. The inlet was the primary water access route for recovery ships following the July 17, 1996, crash of TWA Flight 800. 27. The ground team expected to have the oil spill cleaned up within about two hours using oil-recovery ships in the area. 28. After her returning to Charleston on 12 July, she was designated a recovery ship for the Gemini V orbital space mission. 29. There are more than 30 of them aboard their recovery ship , along with seemingly innocent hostages used to pilot the ship. 30. The broadcast from the recovery ship showed morning in the South Pacific, a calm sea under a patchwork of fair-weather clouds.
