 Since that time, into 1970, "Range Recoverer" operated out of Little Creek primarily between Wallops Island and the splash down area near Bermuda.During the mid-sixties the ship traveled to Greece for coordinated research on a solar eclipse and was visited by the Greek royal family.NASA, assisting other government agencies, has also loaned "Range Recoverer" to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, to conduct oceanographic surveys off the coast of Virginia.