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Overall view of the crowded Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC) at Manned Spacecraft Center during post-recovery ceremonies aboard the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 13 mission. The Apollo 13 spacecraft, with astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., John L. Swigert Jr. and Fred W. Haise Jr. aboard, splashed down in the South Pacific Ocean at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970. The smooth splashdown and recovery operations brought an end to a perilous space flight for the crewmen and a tiring one for the ground crew in MCC.