NASA Photo ID: S69-36592           File Name: 10075168.jpg
Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 05/26/69
Title: Apollo 10 spacecraft with Navy swimmers floating in recovery area
Description:
The Apollo 10 spacecraft, with Astronauts Stafford, Young, and Cernan still
inside, floats in the South Pacific immediately after touchdown. U.S. Navy 
underwater demolition team swimmers assist in the recovery operations. 
Splashdown occurred at 11:53 a.m., May 26, 1969, about 400 miles east of 
American Samoa. Note that in this photo the divers have attached a
flotation  collar to the spacecraft.                
Subject terms:
APOLLO 10                               
APOLLO PROJECT                          
APOLLO SPACECRAFT                       
COMMAND MODULES                         
DIVERS                                  
NAVY                                    
PACIFIC OCEAN                           
PARACHUTES                              
RECOVERY                                
SPACECRAFT RECOVERY                     
WATER LANDING                           

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