Fifty Years Ago - Apollo 13 on the Iwo Jima (Robert Gillette)

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Fifty Years Ago - Apollo 13 on the Iwo Jima

Fifty years ago on 17 April I happened to be in the right place at the right time, aboard the USS Iwo Jima, the Apollo 13 recovery ship. Images here are mine, using a borrowed Nikon, digitized from slides. Some of the expressions here -- for instance, the grim set of Swigert's face as he leaves the recovery copter -- strike me as more natural and transparent than NASA's official images.

In the main image, James Lovell is on deck minutes after arriving, with Rear Admiral Donald C. Davis, Commander of Task Force 130, the manned spacecraft recovery group.

I heard Lovell say to Davis as they met, "Thank God for Grumman," the company that built the lunar lander, transformed into the imperiled crew's lifeboat as they circled the moon and safely returned to Earth while an anxious world held its collective breath.

Just thought it would be good to share after all this time.

Very pleased that this image has been selected as AAPOD2 for 17 April.

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Description: Lovell & Swigert Exit Recovery Copter

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