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Apollo Control in Houston expects the astronauts to splash down in the Pacific about 300 miles southeast of Samoa at 12:18 p. m. Friday afternoon...
...lunar craft must circle the moon before the astronauts can start back to earth. At the earliest, Apollo 13 will start its return trip at 9:40 p.m. tonight and splash down at 1:20 p.m. Friday afternoon if everything goes right...
...splash down is now scheduled for the Atlantic Ocean. Emergency recovery ships are not stationed in the Atlanticfor Apollo 13 as they were for previous flights. Mission Control said the United States will ask any "ship of opportunity" from any nation to help with the recovery...
...Friday morning, the moon walkers will rejoin their fellow astronaut Mattingly, still orbiting in Odyssey, send Aquarius crashing into the moon about 42 miles from its original landing site, and head for home. Ten days after the launch from Cape Kennedy, the astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific about 200 miles south of Christmas Island, bringing back samples that should add immeasurably to man's knowledge of his nearest celestial neighbor...
...AAAS intended this convention to be different, but the students caused much more of a splash and created more interest than we thought we would," Tuttle said yesterday...