Apollo 13 Splashdown
A perilous space flight comes to a smooth ending with the safe splashdown of the Apollo 13 Command Module (CM) in the south Pacific Ocean, only four miles from the prime recovery ship, the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. The Command Module "Odyssey" with Commander, James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module pilot, John L. Swigert Jr. and Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise Jr. splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970. The crewmen were transported by helicopter from the immediate recovery area to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima..Photo by NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA004626584
- Registered date
- 1970/4/17 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media size
- 3000 × 3000 pixel
- Deployment size
- 2.94(MB)*
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.