Cool, Thanks for sharing this with Me/Us. We have come a long way since the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Flights and Recovery’s. Albeit We should be much further along but NASA had to play stupid games for a few decades. We could already be on Mars by now IMO.
I was reminding the spousal unit of the days when an astronaut launch and recovery would have had every TV in the nation and much of the world tuned in. Now, it's a fraction of us who watch on YouTube.
Maybe it's the absence of Jules Bergman ? 😉