# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B0TWpZ8gwdk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15342788-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/67c47653dc.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-07-24T14:12:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

This photo taken fifty years ago today shows the three Apollo 11 crewmembers awaiting pickup by a helicopter from the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The fourth man in the life raft is a United States Navy underwater demolition team swimmer. All four men are wearing biological isolation garments.

Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, onboard, splashed down at 11:49 a.m. (CDT), July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and only 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet.

Credit: NASA

#nasa #history #apollo50 #moon #exploration #astronauts #otd #artemis

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