The Apollo 8 crew stands in the doorway of a Sikorsky SH-3D <i>Sea King</i> recovery helicopter (BuNo 152711) after arriving aboard the carrier USS <i>Yorktown</i> (CVS-10), recovery vessel for the historic initial manned lunar orbital mission. In left foreground is astronaut Frank Borman, Mission Commander. Behind Borman is astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module pilot; and on the right is astronaut William A. Anders, Lunar Module pilot. Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:51 hrs (EST), 27 December 1968, in the central Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,600 km (1,000 miles) south-southwest of Hawaii.
NASA/photographer unknown
1968-12-27
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