One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
28 October 2022
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
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Recovery of the spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space, NASA [Gemini X], 21 July 1966

printed 1966
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm)
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Numbered to upper margin 'NASA S-66-42778' with NASA MSC caption and 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks to verso.

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The Gemini X spacecraft touchdowned in the Atlantic Ocean after 43 revolutions of the Earth about 4 nautical miles from the prime recovery ship, USS Guadalcanal and 460 nautical miles east of Cape Kennedy at 4:07 p.m. (EST), July 21, 1966, to conclude a three-day mission in space. 

The astronauts were picked up from the ocean by a recovery helicopter and flown to the Guadalcanal to begin postflight medical and technical debriefings. U.S. Navy frogmen recovered the Gemini X parachute and the capsule was hoisted on board USS Guadalcanal.

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