Staff members from NASA Headquarters, and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) (today known as the the Johnson Space Center (JSC)), and NASA Administrator, Dr. Thomas Paine (center of frame) applaud the successful splashdown of the Apollo 13 mission while Dr. George Low smokes a cigar (right), in the MSC Mission Control Center (MCC).
Staff members from NASA Headquarters, and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) (today known as the the Johnson Space Center (JSC)), and NASA Administrator, Dr. Thomas Paine (center of frame) applaud the successful splashdown of the Apollo 13 mission while Dr. George Low smokes a cigar (right), in the MSC Mission Control Center (MCC). Apollo 13 crewmembers, astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970, in the south Pacific Ocean.
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