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TIL that after Apollo 11 was recovered by USS Hornet, the astronauts were quarantined in a converted mobile home on the flight deck in case they picked up some alien disease from the moon

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posted by Dii_Casses on TIL

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[–] pembo210 1 points (+1|-0)

Edited

They had NASA physician William Carpentier and MQF project engineer John Hirasaki in there with them too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#Splashdown_and_quarantine

[–] leaderofnopack 0 points (+0|-0)

Yet none of them complained, like the anti mask people of today.

[–] Dii_Casses [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

https://uss-hornet.org/history/splashdown#1624991749075-75ef8de5-e6e2