What I never understood is why the unloading process is so needlessly complicated. After splash down, why not attach a cable and hoist the capsule onto a ship for unloading?
Instead, it’s always this long spectacle of multiple back-and-forth boat trips, inflation and attachment of rafts and ‘porches’, and several helicoptor trips to a ship.
Just build a recovery ship that can park right over the capsule and hoist it on deck.
What I never understood is why the unloading process is so needlessly complicated. After splash down, why not attach a cable and hoist the capsule onto a ship for unloading?
Instead, it’s always this long spectacle of multiple back-and-forth boat trips, inflation and attachment of rafts and ‘porches’, and several helicoptor trips to a ship.
Just build a recovery ship that can park right over the capsule and hoist it on deck.
A big show so random people in the military can say they helped.
Seemed the most dangerous part of the whole mission, dangling people from cables under a flying paradox one at a time.
I think the money required to “just build a recovery ship” is way too high to justify it as an alternative to methods that already work.