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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 3620416, member: 28299&quot;]July 24, 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed safely back on Earth.&nbsp; Due to concerns about bringing back a potential Moon organism the astronauts had to immediately don biological isolation garments, and were quickly helicoptered to the waiting aircraft carrier, <i>Hornet</i>, where they were installed in the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), a glorified RV, to keep them isolated from humanity.&nbsp; The MQF was landed at Pearl Harbor a couple of days later and flown to Houston, arriving on July 28.&nbsp; The astronauts were kept in isolation for a total of 3 weeks, and then released to the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those of you who have enjoyed this series of posts for Apollo 11, I plan to do a daily series of posts on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 12; November 14 - 24.&nbsp; This is the Apollo mission I got most interested in, and have the most number of pictures, hardware and checklist pages from, as well as a couple of signed $1 bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the last Apollo 11 piece in my collection.&nbsp; It&#039;s a US flag that traveled on Apollo 11 to the Moon.&nbsp; I keep it displayed in my home next to the political cartoon picture of the Mercury astronauts that are having so many problems trying to get into space, that was posted on July 16.&nbsp; The combination of the two symbolizes to me what the USA can do when it puts it&#039;s mind to it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970444[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970445[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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