File:USS Princeton (LPH-5) Apollo 10 1969.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy helicopter carrier USS Princeton (LPH-5) at sea during the operation to recover the Apollo 10 spacecraft in late May 1969. Visible on the flight deck are a Sikorsky UH-34 Seabat helicopter (green, aft) and three Sikorsky SH-3D Sea Kings of helicopter anti-submarine squadron HS-4 Black Knights. The rounded structure on the forward part of the flight deck is for use in housing the space capsule. The Apollo 10 was the pre-moon landing mission and landed on 26 May 1969, 16:52:23 UTC at 15°2′S 164°39′W (circa 500 km east of Samoa).
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 2001.205.029 [1]
Author U.S. Navy

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