Entry and Splashdown: Apollo 11, The Untold Story  Two hours
after rendezvous, the command/service module jettisoned the
lunar module, then the main engine fired to send Apollo 11 on a
trajectory for home. Here, after a three-day coast, the crew
jettisons the service module too and, buckled down in the
command module, blazes into the thin atmosphere of Earth. They
splash down in the Pacific Ocean, where they are immediately
airlifted into quarantine aboard the USS Hornet while Mission
Control celebrates.  By Jennifer Bogo May 27, 2009 12:00 AM  *
Chuck Deiterich, retrofire officer (RETRO), Black Team, Mission
Control: About 16 hours before re-entry the recovery guys came
up and said, "Hey, we've got bad weather where you're going." It
was too late to change the time of flight, to let the Earth
rotate underneath you, so what we did was fly an entry range.
You could actually fly a different trajectory through the
atmosphere and land [further] downrange.  * H. David Reed,
flight dynamics officer (FIDO), Green Te