We could do the same thing. But by dropping the capsules into the ocean, this gave the Navy something to do in between transporting Marines to and from battle. ;) Our accuracy in dropping capsules from the sky is pretty good. Notice how close they would land to the recovery vessel? Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
Michael got it exactly right. The Soviet government absolutely insisted that their spacecraft returned to earth on Soviet soil to maintain secrecy.
--- Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hi Mike, I think it's purely that we had more unoccupied water and they had more occupied land.
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