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NASA Photo ID: S69-36592           File Name: 10075168.jpg

  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.




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