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Apollo 9, Splashdown Recovery and Water Egress Training, Eight Photographs. Two 8 x 10 in. color photographs, November 20, 1968 showing astronauts Scott and McDivitt hoisted to a Coast Guard helicopter in a rescue net in the Gulf of Mexico, NASA red numbers S-68-50969 and S-68-50989, "A Kodak Paper" and purple NASA captions on verso with round logo; [together with] six additional photographs taken March 13, 1969, showing the actual capsule with parachutes, splashdown, the spacecraft in the water in the flotation collar with the crew inside floating in the water, and hoisted to deck of the USS Guadalcanal, each with NASA captions in purple on verso and round logo, three with "A Kodak Paper" on verso. (8)
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Estimate $200-300
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