Rescue. Recovery. Ready. 🚁 On this week’s #HWHAP, members of the First Air Force Detachment 3 discuss their partnership with NASA supporting astronaut rescue and recovery operations from Mercury to Artemis. nasa.gov/podcasts/houst…

@NASA_Johnson Amazing teamwork! 🚁 The partnership between NASA and the Air Force is truly inspiring in keeping astronauts safe.

Rescue. Recovery. Ready. 🚁🛟 This week's #HWHAP episode is super interesting! Members of the 1st Air Force Detachment 3 (that's the unit embedded at NASA Johnson) explain how they've supported astronaut recovery from the Mercury splashdowns in 1961 all the way to today's Artemis-era planning and Crew Dragon returns. Fun fact: during the early Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA sometimes had up to 20+ ships and thousands of personnel spread across the Atlantic—now it's much leaner thanks to better spacecraft predictability, helicopters with pararescuemen (PJs), and those amazing divers who can handle everything from open-ocean ops to post-landing medical care. The PJs are even trained for extended survival scenarios and have space-specific medical skills. Pretty cool to hear how this quiet partnership keeps getting our astronauts home safely! Great listen → nasa.gov/podcasts/houst…

@NASA_Johnson This evolved to support Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station missions, ensuring global search-and-rescue coordination.......

@NASA_Johnson @NASAArtemis @NASA_Johnson @NASA @NASAhistory I wrote a personal prayer from the divine spark within each of us for the quantum double-slit creation of the universe (I wrote something for ARTEMIS 2) I declare magnificent moments for Artemis 2

@NASA_Johnson From Project Mercury to the Artemis program, the partnership between the First Air Force Detachment 3 and NASA ensures one mission above all: bringing astronauts home safely. 🌎✨

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