 The first of these two cruises also brought operations in the Indian Ocean with units of the Thai Navy and a transit of Sunda Strait during which a ceremony was held to commemorate the loss of the cruisers and in 1942.In between these two last deployments, she operated in the eastern Pacific and participated in the recovery of the Apollo 16 Moon mission capsule and astronauts 215 miles SE off Christmas Island during April 1972.The second deployment came in the summer of 1972, and, in addition to the training exercises in the Sea of Japan, "Ticonderoga" also joined ASW training operations in the South China Sea.