 When it hit the water , the parachutes dragged the spacecraft over and left it upside down , in what was termed Stable 2 position . About six minutes later the Command Module was righted into its normal apex @-@ up splashdown orientation by the inflatable bag uprighting system . As they were buffeted by a 10 @-@ foot ( 3 @.@ 0 m ) swell , Borman was sick , waiting for the three flotation balloons to right the spacecraft . It was 43 minutes after splashdown before the first frogman from USS Yorktown arrived , as the spacecraft had landed before sunrise . Forty @-@ five minutes later , the crew was safe on the deck of the aircraft carrier . 
