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Apollo 13 Service Module and Lunar Module as entering Earth's atmosphere
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Apollo 13 Service Module and Lunar Module as entering Earth's atmosphere

NASA / JSC · 1970-04-18 · photograph (digital archive)

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S70-17646 (18 April 1970) --- An unidentified airline passenger snapped these bright objects, believed to be the Apollo 13 Service Module (SM) and Lunar Module (LM) as they entered Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on April 18, 1970. The aircraft, an Air New Zealand DC-8 was midway between the Fiji Islands (Nandi Island to be specific) and Auckland, New Zealand, when the photograph was taken.

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Credit lineApollo 13 Service Module and Lunar Module as entering Earth's atmosphere. NASA/JSC, 1970-04-18. Public domain. ID: S70-17646.

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