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Houston, Texas

These placards describe the drama of the search and recovery effort.

Finally, they strike pay-dirt, Liberty Bell 7 is successfully recovered.

Here's some of the spacecraft's guts; cables, wiring, and instrumentation.

Here's the spacecraft. Wow! After more than 37 years under more than 3 miles of water, here it is for my viewing pleasure. The recovery feat was pretty amazing, considering nothing this small has ever been recovered from such a depth.