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Image: Apollo14 - Landung

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Description: The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM), with astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, aboard, approaches touchdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully end a 10-day lunar landing mission. The splashdown occurred at 3:04:39 p.m. (CST), Feb. 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa. The three crew men were flown by helicopter to the USS New Orleans prime recovery ship.
Title: Apollo14 - Landung
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo14/html/s71-18753.html
Author: NASA
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