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.