NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The spacecraft Kitty Hawk landing in the Pacific Ocean

Apollo 14, February 9, 1971

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper with red NASA MSC caption numbered “S-71-18753” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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The Apollo 14 Command Module descended into the south Pacific on February 9, 1971. The splashdown occurred at 3:04:39 p.m. (CST), Feb. 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa in the South Pacific after a successful ten-day lunar landing mission. The three crew men were flown by helicopter to the USS New Orleans prime recovery ship.