A team of U.S. Navy swimmers assists with the recovery operations following splashdown of the historic joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in Earth orbit. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand and Donald K. Slayton still in the spacecraft, waiting for pickup by the USS New Orleans, the prime recovery USN ship. USN, United States Navy
A team of U.S. Navy swimmers assists with the recovery operations following splashdown of the historic joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in Earth orbit. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand and Donald K. Slayton still in the spacecraft, waiting for pickup by the USS New Orleans, the prime recovery USN ship. USN, United States Navy