a_v_c_o_n (NASA-Marshall Photo, M-MS-G 37-22-63)
"Recovery teams proceed immediately to pick up the Apollo crewmen."
Note the radar dish in the background, referenced in the preceding illustration (below). Although the recovery aircraft has been upgraded to the venerable Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the bone-jarring terrestrial landing was obviously still under consideration as of this illustration. Sorta blasphemous that the CH-47 bears a USAF roundel - it is any Army bird...artistic license I suppose. ;-)
Look at the astronaut-to-capsule scale. That thing is HUGE...like Orion-sized. Even the hatch is the size of a door. Hence the CH-47 Chinook?
Just sayin’:
a_v_c_o_n (NASA-Marshall Photo, M-MS-G 37-22-63)
"Recovery teams proceed immediately to pick up the Apollo crewmen."
Note the radar dish in the background, referenced in the preceding illustration (below). Although the recovery aircraft has been upgraded to the venerable Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the bone-jarring terrestrial landing was obviously still under consideration as of this illustration. Sorta blasphemous that the CH-47 bears a USAF roundel - it is any Army bird...artistic license I suppose. ;-)
Look at the astronaut-to-capsule scale. That thing is HUGE...like Orion-sized. Even the hatch is the size of a door. Hence the CH-47 Chinook?
Just sayin’: