U.S. Navy Missile Range Instrumentation Ship USNS Longview (TAGM-3) is one of the type of ship that recovered the Discoverer XIII, the first American satellite capsule recovered from outerspace, 1960.
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Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Headquarters in Annapolis, MD.

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