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Mrs. Marilyn Lovell and three of her children greet photographers and newsmen outside the Lovell home in Timber Cove following the successful recovery of their husband and father and his fellow crew-men in the South Pacific Ocean. The children pictured are Susan, Jeffrey C. and Barbara Lovell. Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., John L. Swigert Jr., and fred W. Haise Jr. safely concluded their perilous Apollo 13 mission when their spacecraft splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970, in the South Pacific Ocean.