HOUSTON: The Apollo-14 moon explorers made an ideal splashdown in the Pacific today (Feb 9) at 0200 WPST after man's third Lunar investigation that mission authority Alan Shepard named 'a crushing achievement'. With 96 lbs. of moon soil and shakes stowed away also, conceivably the most exact and precise photos of the Lunar territory yet got, Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Rosa had just one significant obstacle to defeat prior to arriving at home.
In the same manner as all other spaceman's before them they needed to manage their space lodge through the world's weighty cover of air with pinpoint exactness to drop delicately into the swells of the mid Pacific close to the global dateline south of Samoa ... Subsequent to casting off their administration module containing their primary rocket motor as they close to the earth, the Apollo team should hit the environment with gruff finish of their lodge at the correct elevation to turn away either being terminated ash or skirting like a stone into space and inescapable demise. Shepard eliminated any last waiting questions about the achievement of the mission when he and his team held a 25 moment broadcast Press meeting from their rocket the previous evening. 'I feel Apollo-14 has been a reverberating achievement,' he said.
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