President Richard Nixon views Apollo 11 splashdown

1969 - Apollo 11 Splashdown: President Richard Nixon follows Apollo 11 recovery activities with binoculars aboard the USS Hornet, located 13 miles from the spacecraft's splashdown point.The president led the nation in greeting astronauts Neil A.Armstrong, Michael collins and Edwin Aldrin, at the successful completion of their historic lunar landing mission. Their spacecraft splashdown 900 miles south west of Hawaii at 12.50p.m. EDT July, 1969 eight days after the space pilots were launched by a Saturn V space vehicle from the Cape Kennedy Space Centre

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