File:Apollo 8 recovery - GPN-2000-001504.jpg

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English: The Apollo 8 crew stands in the doorway of a Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King recovery helicopter (BuNo 152711) after arriving aboard the carrier USS Yorktown (CVS-10), recovery vessel for the historic initial manned lunar orbital mission. In left foreground is astronaut Frank Borman, Mission Commander. Behind Borman is astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module pilot; and on the right is astronaut William A. Anders, Lunar Module pilot. Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:51 hrs (EST), 27 December 1968, in the central Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,600 km (1,000 miles) south-southwest of Hawaii.
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This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: GPN-2000-001504 and Alternate ID: S68-56326.

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