NASA Photo ID: S73-36401           File Name: 10076298.jpg
Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 09/25/73
Title: Navy swimmers assist with recovery of Skylab 3 Command Module
Description:
A team of U.S. Navy swimmers assist with the recovery of the Skylab 3
Command  Module following its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean about 230
miles  southwest of San Diego, California. The swimmers had just attached a 
flotation collar to the spacecraft to improve its buoyancy.                   

Subject terms:
COMMAND MODULES                         
DIVERS                                  
NAVY                                    
PACIFIC OCEAN                           
RECOVERY                                
SKYLAB 3                                
SKYLAB PROGRAM                          
SPACECRAFT RECOVERY                     
WATER LANDING                           

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