NASA Photo ID: S71-18753           File Name: 10075643.jpg
Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 02/09/71
Title: Apollo 14 Command Module approaches touchdown in South Pacific Ocean
Description:
The Apollo 14 Command Module, with Astronauts Alan B. Shepard JR., Stuart
A.  Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard, approaches touchdown in the South 
Pacific Ocean to end a ten-day lunar landing mission. The splashdown
occured  at 3:04:39 p.m., February 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical
miles south of  American Samoa.                 
Subject terms:
APOLLO 14                               
APOLLO PROJECT                          
COMMAND MODULES                         
PACIFIC OCEAN                           
PARACHUTES                              
WATER LANDING                           

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