Elon / Starlink uses boats. Helicopters have the advantage of mobility, but the splashdowns are so accurate, big stable boats with lots of room for divers work fine. Starship lands in the vast Indian Ocean but somehow the boats are right there. Sandy Clark208.651.7335 On Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 10:26:08 AM PDT, Michael Fuqua <michael.fuqua@gmail.com> wrote: I had the same thoughts. I hope the astronauts had barf bags! It all seemed rather rube goldberg to me. After such an amazing, imaginative, techologically incredible 10 days what we saw seemed right out of Apollo recoveries of the 1960s. Okay…but they gotta find a better way. Give the task to Elon….he would figure it out. :) Mike Michael Fuqua michael.fuqua@gmail.com 858-382-3297 On Apr 11, 2026, at 10:14, mgbrattland@gerlecreek.com wrote: Indeed, I did catch in one small live shot the birds were from HSC-23 Wildcards at North Island.I cannot imagine how uncomfortable it must have been in that close capsule bobbing around so long before they even opened it up……..Obviousdly all a part of not loosing that capsule, bu It seems to me they could have easily skipped it all and just moved the Murtha in close and let them tow this whole deal into the well and be done with it. So both recovery helos were flying without the left pilot’s door which I am guessing watching them blow the fancy raft for the astronaut recovery was so the left seat could fly the approach and hold a hover over till one of the boat swimmers grabbed the horse collar…..good illustration of why the swimmer removes the pilot to be recued from their raft so they do not geet chased all over the ocean as was the case here…mgb CDR Mike Brattland, USN (Ret.) mgbrattland@gerlecreek.commgbrattland@brattland.orgAdmin/Moderator SanDiegoCarGuys List & Calendar of Eventssandiegocarguys@brattland.org619 454-0496 ’38 Willys 2 Dr SedanWebmaster for www.brattland.org www.overthehillgang.com www.overdrivehotrodnews.com www.gerlecreek.org www.helobubbas.com www.prowlers.org www.gerlecreek.com www.ford6vcarburetion.com www.westcoastwillysclub.com www.nssha.org www.nhahistoricalsociety.org https://sh60fhoas.nhahistoricalsociety.org/ From: ahaefner@aol.com <ahaefner@aol.com> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2026 8:48 AM To: Jim Sr Sturges <jwsturges@gmail.com>; Marc Liebman <marc@marcliebman.com> Cc: HeloBubbas <helobubbas@helobubbas.com> Subject: [Helobubbas] Re: Artemis II landing And the number of boats and number of people in the boats looked like Saturday morning during whale watching season off of Pr Loma. W/r, AL Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS On Friday, April 10, 2026, 7:22 PM, Jim Sr Sturges <jwsturges@gmail.com> wrote: Looks like divers’ only job was to hook up the circular support and the front porch raft On Apr 10, 2026, at 8:37 PM, Marc Liebman <marc@marcliebman.com> wrote: Does anyone know why the divers weren’t put in the water via helo? It took forever for the boats to get out to the capsule. Way back when during Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, an H-3 arrived within seconds of the chutes leaving the capsule. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association -- _______________________________________________ Helobubbas mailing list -- helobubbas@helobubbas.com To unsubscribe send an email to helobubbas-leave@helobubbas.com_______________________________________________ Helobubbas mailing list -- helobubbas@helobubbas.com To unsubscribe send an email to helobubbas-leave@helobubbas.com _______________________________________________ Helobubbas mailing list -- helobubbas@helobubbas.com To unsubscribe send an email to helobubbas-leave@helobubbas.com _______________________________________________ Helobubbas mailing list -- helobubbas@helobubbas.com To unsubscribe send an email to helobubbas-leave@helobubbas.com