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Apollo 16 Command Module during recovery operations after splashdown
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S72-36602 (27 April 1972) --- The Apollo 16 Command Module bobbles photographed in the waters of the central Pacific Ocean during recovery operations. The prime recovery ship, USS Ticonderoga, is in the background. A recovery helicopter hovers overhead. The Apollo 16 crew, astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke Jr., were picked up by helicopter and flown to the deck of the ship. The splashdown occurred at 290:37:06 ground elapsed time, 1:45:06 p.m.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineApollo 16 Command Module during recovery operations after splashdown. NASA/JSC, 1972-04-27. Public domain. ID: s72-36602.
