Apollo 9 Approaches Splashdown
'Gumdrop', the command module of the Apollo 9 mission, approaching splashdown. The module was carrying three astronauts following a successful ten-day Earth orbit flight designed to test several aspects critical to a future Moon landing. Photographed over the Atlantic Ocean, March 13, 1969.
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