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Apollo 13: Separation of the never-flown-before Command Module / Lunar Module configuration from the crippled Service Module. April 17, 1970

NASA INFO: Separation of the never-flown-before Command Module / Lunar Module configuration from the crippled Service Module. Approaching Earth, they fired the Aquarius engine again to thread themselves through the slender gateway out of space, shifted to the damaged Service Module and their lifeboat, the Aquarius. Carrier Iwo Jima, steaming on station in the Pacific Ocean, picked them up 45 minutes after splashdown, the fastest recovery ever.

Apollo 13 "Splashdown" LIVE on TV (ABC) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_mmYsEQk

SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont.

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