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Kitty Hawk" Nears Splashdown, NASA Apollo program
Summary
The Apollo 15 Command Module "Kitty Hawk", with Astronauts David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin aboard, nears a safe touchdown in the mid-Pacific Ocean to end their lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crewmen, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m., August 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii.
NASA Identifier: GPN-2000-001121
Date
1971
Source
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