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Command module being loaded onto deck of the USS Iwo Jima
Crop 1: Command module being loaded onto deck of the USS Iwo Jima

A photograph of the command module of NASA mission Apollo 13 being successfully recovered from the South Pacific Ocean. The mission was slated to land on the Moon, but an explosion en route from Earth put the lives of the crew in jeopardy. This is a crisp, high-resolution, impressively clear photograph documenting a unique historic event. I'm surprised by its high quality given that it was taken in 1970.

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Dylan (talk) 01:03, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Certainly better, so it's just a question of whether it's too grainy, and whether the composition is good enough. At this point the astronauts have already been evacuated, right, so at this phase of the mission it is just a routine recovery of the spacecraft. People may be less excited about that. But still it's a historical mission -- seems like a "maybe." Fletcher (talk) 11:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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