NASA Photo ID: S66-34117           File Name: 10074387.jpg
Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 06/06/66
Title: Gemini 9-A spacecraft touches down in the Atlantic at end of mission
Description:
Gemini 9-A space flight is concluded as the Gemini 9 spacecraft touches
down  in the Atlantic. In this view its parachute is still deployed as the 
spacecraft hits the water (34117); Astronauts Thomas Stafford (right) and 
Eugene Cernan wave to the crowd aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp as 
they emerge from their Gemini 9 capsule. John C. Stonesifer (far right),
with  the Manned Spacecraft Center's Landing and Recovery Division, was on
board to  greet the astronauts (34118).               

Subject terms:
ASTRONAUTS                              
ATLANTIC OCEAN                          
GEMINI 9 FLIGHT                         
GEMINI PROJECT                          
GEMINI SPACECRAFT                       
NAVY                                    
PARACHUTES                              
RECOVERY                                
SHIPS                                   
SPACECRAFT RECOVERY                     
WATER LANDING                           

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