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APOLLO-10 ASTRONAUTS BACK TO EARTH

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ABOARD USS PRINCETON, May 26 (AP & Reuter)—Climaxing a voyage of discovery that paved the way for Americans to land on the moon, the Apollo-10 lunar explorers parachuted to a bull’s eye landing in Pacific on Monday and were quickly hoisted aboard the recovery ship ‘Princeton’. America’s newest space heroes ended man’s greatest and most dangerous space adventure when their sturdy six-ton space ship parachuted into gently rolling seas within sight of this helicopter carrier 400 miles east of Pago Pago. With television cameras relaying the dramatic the dramatic splashdown and recovery to the United States and Europe Air Force Col. Thomas P. Stafford and Navy Cmdrs. John W. Young and Eugene A Cernan hit the water just three miles from the ‘Princeton’.

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