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Apollo 14 Command Module approaches touchdown in South Pacific Ocean
The Apollo 14 Command Module, with Astronauts Alan B. Shepard JR., Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard, approaches touchdown in the South Pacific Ocean to end a ten-day lunar landing mission. The splashdown occured at 3:04:39 p.m., February 9, 1971, approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa. (Source: NIX)
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