Apollo 8 Recovery
A team of Navy underwater demolition swimmers prepares the Apollo 8 command module for being hoisted aboard the carrier Yorktown, prime recovery vessel for the initial manned lunar orbital mission. The crew members - astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders - had already egressed the spacecraft and were aboard the recovery ship at the time of this photo.
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