NASA Photo 66-H-1037, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. The Gemini 10 spacecraft containing Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, 460 nautical miles east of Cape Kennedy following a flight of 43 revolutions…
"Recovery Area", USS Guadalcanal, July 21, 1966. A Navy frogman of the USS Guadalcanal recovery team attached the floatation collar to the NASA Gemini 10 spacecraft after splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA Photo 66-H-1039, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. A Pararescueman inflates flotation collar under the Gemini 10 Spacecraft containing Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins following their splash down in the Atlantic ocecan.
NASA Photo 66-H-1040, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. The Gemini 10 spacecraft containing Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins descends into the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA Photo 66-H-1041, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 spacecraft containing Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins impacted into the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA Photo 66-H-1043, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins join in a shipboard ceremony aboard the USS Guadalcanal after their recovery in the Atlantic Ocean
NASA Photo 66-H-1042, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young explain particulars of their three-day mission to naval officers aboard the USS Guadalcanal.
Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins get a welcome from crew of the Carrier Guadalcanal after they were taken aboard following an on-target splashdown from their three day flight.
Gemini 10 Astronaut Michael Collins wears a life belt as he is towed up to a helicopter from raft in the western Atlantic today after splash down of the space craft.
The huge, striped parachute which eased Gemini 10 down into the western Atlantic after the reentry of the spacecraft collapses in the water as Gemini 10 floats alongside it.
Mike Collins, 3, whose dad, Astronaut Michael Collins has contributed a great deal to America's space program in the last few days, has his own little space kick going.
Astronaut John W. Young, Command Pilot of the Gemini 10 Spacecraft, is hoisted from the water by a recovery helicopter from the prime recovery ship, The USS Guadalcanal.
Astronaut Michael Collins above the Western Atlantic as he is hoisted from the water by a recovery helicopter from the prime recovery ship, The USS Guadalcanal.
A three-day growth of beards is sported by Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins, after they were taken aboard the Carrier Guadalcanal.
Gemini 10 Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young sit in a raft with three frogmen as they wait for a helicopter to pick them up after they emerged from their spacecraft after splash down in the western Atlantic.
The 83-foot orange and white parachute that lowered the Gemini 10 space craft after reentry lies below the surface of the western Atlantic after the almost perfect pinpoint landing of the craft in recovery area.
Wearing a three-day growth of beard, the beaming crew of the Gemini 10, John W. Young and Michael Collins, stand on the deck of the helicopter carrier Guadalcanal.
Freckle-faced, twelve-year-old Billy Doyle gets the fulfillment of his greatest wish as Gemini 10 space walker Michael Collins hands him a piece of cake aboard the helicopter carrier Guadalcanal.